Famous Quotes & Sayings

It means that the prosecutors are already having the name plate written to go over the jail cell.

Alain Robert

They want me to go to jail for a little while.

Quentin Tarantino

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Polly Toynbee

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Elyn Saks

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

John Bunyan

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

Joe Arpaio

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

Kate Millett

[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

Judy Woodruff

The system was afraid of Vaclav Havel. And so they either harassed him for put him in jail.

Nicholas Pileggi

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Patrick Henry

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

Mario Puzo

No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.

Nicole Richie

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

Nick Offerman

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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

Nelson Mandela

When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners.

Nelson Mandela

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

Patricia McConnell

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

Idris Elba

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

Michael Isikoff

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.

Smokey Robinson

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God

Snoop Dogg

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

Mike Tyson

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

John Waters

I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.

Mort Sahl

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

Mario Balotelli

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.

Michel Foucault

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Ted Nugent

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.

Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.