Prison'd Quotes
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I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.
— Inez Haynes Irwin
I think Holly's right," Sophie said. "He likes you." "Oh, well, lucky me! I suppose if he loved me I'd be in federal prison.
— Pamela Clare
Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.
— Kevin Hearne
The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.
— Tahir Shah
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
— Benjamin Franklin
If anything, my physical death would be, for me, a form of salvation, It would liberate me for ever from this hopeless prison, this pain of being me.
— Haruki Murakami
In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
— Burt Prelutsky
I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.
— Leigh Hershkovich
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
— Denis Healey
I'd kill for any one of my friends. Thankfully for the overpopulated prison system, I don't have any friends.
— Jarod Kintz
I often wondered if I'd be better off in prison, until I met that ray of sunshine - Claire MacKenna
— Scarlett Grove
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Danbury wasnt a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.
— George Jung
Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.
— Robert D. Hare
It is very much easier to shatter prison-bars than to open undiscovered doors to life.
— D.H. Lawrence
Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.
— Lou Duva
From May 1717 to April 1718, Voltaire sat comfortably in the infamous prison insulting the Regent and reading Homer.
— Jessica Powell
During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.
— Michael Vick
I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
— Jack Layton
It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness.
— Debasish Mridha
I'd volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.
— Mohammad Hatta
Malcolm X educated himself in prison by reading.
— Stephen D. Krashen
I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.
— David Letterman
I promise you that I will steal your heart and keep it in the prison of my love forever.
— Debasish Mridha
All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.
— T.D. Jakes
If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.
— Gerald Vizenor
Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.
— Terry Pratchett
A few shackles and bars and this place'd be forced to call itself a prison!
— Jennifer Anne Kogler
You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
As if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent.
— Albert Camus
I'd never been a prison guard before or anything.
— Lynndie England
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
Things were different now, of course; those solitary hours he'd once savored had become a prison for him, a commonplace.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Escape is very difficult to negotiate, underwater.
— Darion D'Anjou
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world is not a prison house; it is a spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell G-O-D wih the wrong blocks.
— E.A. Robinson
I went to prison for my hacking. Now people hire me to do the same things I went to prison for, but in a legal and beneficial way.
— Kevin D. Mitnick
It's easy to have high morals when you'd be safe naked in the middle of San Quentin Prison.
— Ed Williams
Marriage should be no prison, but a garden in which something higher is cultivated.
— Irvin D. Yalom
When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.
— Max Von Sydow
I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.
— Danny Trejo
Our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely. — William Shakespeare
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely. — William Shakespeare
The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.
— Ricky Gervais
Education shouldn't be the prison of known knowledge, but it should be the bridge to find the yet unknown universe of knowledge.
— Debasish Mridha
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
He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.
— Gregory David Roberts
I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.
— Robert D. Hare
Cliff, I'd like to take over, but our charter prevents it. NSA can't engage in domestic monitoring, even if we're asked. That's prison term stuff.
— Clifford Stoll
Why do you stay in the prison of stress when keys are in your hand?
— Debasish Mridha
As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
— Maajid Nawaz
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.
— Marian Wright Edelman
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
— Chaka Khan
He would live alone and broken, in a prison he could never escape, created by the brother he had betrayed.
— Julia Mills
In prison, illusions can offer comfort.
— Nelson Mandela
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.
— Nelson Mandela
The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.
— Craig Kilborn
For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.
— Madonna Ciccone
It can be nice and still be a prison." "I
— Kim Stanley Robinson
The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.
— Piri Thomas
When you're very anxious, you end up trapped in your head all the time - the prison without walls. Your
— Barry McDonagh
Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.
— Arthur Desmond
Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity.
— Jean Haus
Making Disciples through the Transforming Power of Jesus Christ in the Spirit of Excellence!
— Hans Blunk
Because this is a prison, and there's a prison warden pretending to read a book, just to make others think she's an intelligent woman.
— Paulo Coelho
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Prison had a way of draining people of their hope and humanity. But Harlan didn't have to worry about that because he'd gone in empty.
— Bernice L. McFadden
This house is a prison, a suburban Alcatraz.
— Heather Demetrios
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
this free-man's prison known as life.
— Vanessa Ronan
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
— Bryan Stevenson
In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.
— Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to live. So he signed.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
— John Grisham
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
— Jeffrey Archer
I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose,
— Edward Snowden
You have to remember, William. It may make the difference between freedom and half a lifetime in prison.
— Kenneth Eade
The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.
— Plato
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
— Cyril Connolly
She was free in her prison of passion.
— Oscar Wilde
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?
— Cynthia Ozick