Jail Quotes

If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.

I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'

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.

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock'n'roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock'n'roll.

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I also believe my God will get me through this.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians.

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.