Famous Quotes & Sayings

James McGreevey

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

Emma Goldman

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

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.

Gayle Forman

Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

Malcolm Forbes

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

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.

Tommy Chong

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

Tommy Chong

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

Seth Shostak

Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience.

Leonard Peltier

They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.

Shannen Doherty

I'm unbelievably claustrophobic, and I have really bad anxiety. There were a few moment when I was very dramatic and thought, 'I'm not going to live through this. I'm going to hyperventilate and just die. Right here in jail.'

Judy Woodruff

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

Rick Ross

I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.

Rick Ross

If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.

Tupac Shakur

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

Rob Reiner

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

Richelle Mead

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

Ricky Martin

Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks.

Tommy Lee

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

Tom Waits

I did my time in the jail of your arms

Steven Biko

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.

Sanjay Dutt

I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled.

Rudy Giuliani

People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be a murder of a person in custody, but you cannot destroy property. First person does it goes to jail.

Samuel Johnson

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.

Tom Lehrer

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

Stephen Leacock

You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

Russell Brand

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.

Tyler Perry

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

Ray Lewis

You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

Sarah Polley

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.