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I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life. — Christian Hosoi

Mace growled and wondered how much prison time a man would do for tossing his sister into the East River. — Shelly Laurenston

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. — William Wordsworth

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time. — Cheri Huber

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. — William Glasser

I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison. — Amy J. Berg

I had never feared insomnia before
like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read? — Lorrie Moore

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future. — Piper Kernan

Why, then you go on to Death Row at state prison and just
enjoy all that good food until it's time to ride the lightning. It won't be
long. — Stephen King

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers. — Eric Schlosser

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life. — Gary Gilmore

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population. — Hillary Clinton

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself. — Christopher Lasch

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'? — Zadie Smith

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me. — Diet Eman

It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires. — Amy Sedaris

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. — Quentin Tarantino

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers. — Deb Caletti

You had to be free in your heart. Guilt, fear, anger - they were all their own kinds of prison. You could be out in the world and still be doing time. — Ronald Cotton

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem. — Michael Vick

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time. — P.D. James

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing. — Huey Newton

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris. — Alex Pettyfer

Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team. — Shaquille O'Neal

Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it's growth in a sense ... — Noam Chomsky

He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America. — Carson McCullers

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was. — Diet Eman

When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile. — Martin Amis

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison. — Sushil Koirala

Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison. — Anthony Liccione

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way — Paris Hilton

The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity. — Jack Henry Abbott

Nowhere does time pass as swiftly as in Russia, though they say that in prison it passes even more quickly. — Ivan Turgenev

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison. — Bryan Stevenson

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

A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. — Robert M. Hutchins

Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time. — May Sarton

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. — Orson Scott Card

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they're elected. Don't you?" "Why?" "It saves time. — Terry Pratchett

That's the ironic thing about time, Doc. One the one hand, we don't have much of it for this, but it's all I have in here. — Kenneth Eade

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. — Elliott Abrams

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison. — Edward Snowden

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. — Oscar Wilde

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching. — Peter Orner

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time. — Steven Bochco

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison. — Freddy Fender

Most people spend less time outside than prisoners. — J.R. Rim

Whatever was going on with Rook and Coll officially didn't matter anymore. They'd just have to rot in prison by themselves. He'd join them next time. — Erin Kellison

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. — David Hockney

Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls. — Morgan Rhodes

When you're very anxious, you end up trapped in your head all the time - the prison without walls. Your — Barry McDonagh

You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them. — Neil Gaiman

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction. — Asif Ali Zardari