Top 1200 Prison Cells Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Patenting tends to get people's juices flowing when you put the word 'gene' and the word 'patent' in the same sentence. And understandably so. This is stuff we're carrying around - all of us - inside all of our cells. Should somebody be able to lay claim to it?

I'd gotten to the place where I wanted to quit using drugs but couldn't and finally I landed in that prison cell where everything was cut.

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

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

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.

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

I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.

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

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.

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.

Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.

I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

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

The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.

The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

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

I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

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

When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find-I've still got a hometown. This, nobody's gonna take away from me.

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

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

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

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

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

Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more.

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

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

There's an actor in the TV show 'Prison Break,' Robert Knepper, who plays a violent sociopath, and he's just incredible in that role.

We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.

You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best.

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.

Whatever you believe about your body, your cells believe too. They don't question anything you think, feel, or believe. In fact, they hear every thought, feeling, and belief you have.

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.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

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

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.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.