Top 1200 Prison Break Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope.

I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

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

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

I was just coming out of prison, I was married, and I had a kid, and I didn't know what to do, so I tried stand-up.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

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

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud.

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

I think tax breaks for diversity is a good thing. In film now, what happens is you get huge tax breaks if you can prove via your hiring practices and via casting, that the film is British, you get a tax break. Wouldn't it be great if you got a tax break because the film was properly diverse?

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on this piece of a cardboard. I probably always thought they were cool since then. I never knew his comedy, but I used to always see him break dancing. And he was terrible at it.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like.

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

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

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

I've stayed in the best hotels in the world, but you could put me in prison, and I'd still have fun.

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they're less likely to reoffend.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.