Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and… — Max von Sydow
Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison… — Wesley Snipes
I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system. — Iggy Pop
I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that… — Maggie Gyllenhaal
I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will… — Foxy Brown
I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars.… — Michael Biehn
Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out. — Denzel Washington
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent… — Eric Sevareid
I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can't take a walk in the park . I can't go to the store...… — Michael Jackson
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right… — Pete Seeger
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men… — Danny Glover
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They… — Danny Glover
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. — Tony Snow
Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business was… — Dave Madden
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison… — Andrew Fastow
There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to… — Ice Cube
Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big—big money, big businesses selling weed—after 40 years of impoverished black… — Michel'le
My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all. — Wentworth Miller
I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes… — Wentworth Miller
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. — Mary Archer
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do… — Lani Guinier
A lot of guys in the prison think they're bad. Some of them are, but when it comes to being bad in every sense of… — Tex Watson
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the… — Piper Kerman
I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his… — Piper Kerman
No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage… — James E. Talmage

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