Top 1200 Prison Break Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap.

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

You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and... is this going to be my prison?

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

You know you've lived in LA to long when what you fear most about prison is a lack of organic produce.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars, because as you can see, they're very intimate, very intense scenes. You don't want to break the actor's character and you don't want to break their momentum, so as the actor, I tried not to call cut as much as I could, and almost make it feel like a play, just set this environment where these amazing actors could do what they wanted to do.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never bless us if we wish to please men, that they may think well of us. Are you willing to tell them what will break your own heart in the telling and break theirs in the hearing? If not, you are not fit to serve the Lord. You must be willing to go and speak for God, though you will be rejected.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.

If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

What do people in prison say when they meet new friends? Give me your cell number.

I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

Martha Stewart is getting out of prison so today the terror alert was raised from orange to pesto.

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.

The rule is, you can protest all you want. Make all the noise you want. Carry all the signs you want. The minute you throw a rock, you get arrested. The minute you break a window, you get arrested. The minute you break into a store, you get arrested.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

I'm so blessed to be breaking through right now because, how do you break through now? It took a clothing line to make people recognize me, you know what I mean? So the next kid that doesn't have that opportunity what is he suppose to do? It's really hard to break through right now. You just have to keep dreaming and keep pushing and take those right opportunities. I can't express that enough. It's crazy.

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

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

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

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

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

"Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.

One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.

My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I am released.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion