Crime Quote by Gregory Maguire Download Open image ““You can endure any sort of prison if you can apprehend a window in the dark.”” — Gregory Maguire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime
“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. Where I am is not a prison but… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“So sleep now, without fear for your life, and if you should ever manage to get out of prison, keep in mind that the… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Sometimes; I am caught in my building of emotions - but my prison has, curiously, no bars - and so I think, that escape,… — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or sun. I… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in… — G.I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“My eyes have adjusted to the colorlessness of living in a country like this But brutal to give the prisoner a window And every… — Abeer Abdullah Copy Share Image
“How can a prisoner plot his escape if he doesn’t believe a world exists outside the prison walls?” — Skye Jethani Copy Share Image
“By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of anger: hot and cold. Boys and girls experience both, but as they grow up the anger separates according to the sex. Boys need hot anger to survive. They need inclination to fight, the drive to sink the knife into the flesh, the energy and initiative of fury. It's a requirement of hunting, of defense, of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
“Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see what daybreak… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
