Prison Time Quotes

• It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.

  Amy Sedaris

  Fire, Broken, Desire

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Jail, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

  Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Long

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• Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big—big money, big businesses selling weed—after 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?

  Michel'le

  Running, Weed, Dream

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

  Steven Bochco

  Done, Taste, Knows

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• In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

  William Greider

  Doe, Banking, Deeds

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• All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.

  Diet Eman

  Prayer, Prison

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