Top 1200 Prison Cells Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

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

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

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

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

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

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

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

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.

Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.

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

We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds - the same as our brain.

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

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

Nearly every one of the genes that turns out to be a key player in cancer has a vital role in the normal physiology of an organism. The genes that enable our brains and blood cells to develop are implicated in cancer.

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

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

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

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned what you are left with is an ocean of bliss. What you emerged with what you are is an ocean of bliss. Your cells and atoms and brain and bones and blood stream all of it is bliss.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

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

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

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.

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

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

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

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

By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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

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

The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it the most complex structure, natural or artificial, on earth.

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

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

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor is there the slightest empirical hint of an evolutionary sequence among all the incredibly diverse cells on earth.

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

Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.

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

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my 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.

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

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

Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.

... what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

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

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

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose 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.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

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

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.

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'?

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

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.