Jail Quotes - Page 22

• I was watchin' the news the other day, and I heard them talking about a criminal named Brian Regan same spelling and everything. He's gonna be in jail for the rest of his life. So I'm sitting there doing a crossword puzzle and all of a sudden I hear, It is unknown whether the charges against Brian Regan will lead to his execution. Guess I can put this down. Honey, did we pay that parking ticket?!

  Brian Regan

  Talking, News, Sitting

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• I am satisfied with everything in my life. Including the fact that I spent time in jail.

  Ivan Slavkov

  Facts, Bulgaria, Satisfied

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• Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and piano player Carl Perkins would die two years later. When the record was recorded I was behind bars myself. In 1955 I was caught with narcotics and had to serve almost five years. Luckily, I was allowed to keep my saxophone in the cell, and I composed a lot during the time. They had to come fetch the music for Playboys from jail.

  Jimmy Heath

  Art, Player, Cells

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• The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Mean, Heart, Men

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• Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Space, Drug, Cost

  William F. Buckley Jr.'s Address to the New York Bar Association, www.nationalreview.com. July 28, 2014.

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• I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Greatness, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Mar 04, 2013

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• Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

  Jennifer L. Holm

  Sweet, Children, Kids

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• I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

  John F. Kerry

  War, People, Veteran

  Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2004.

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• Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.

  Chelsea Handler

  Years, Dui, Months

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• Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, War, Fighting

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

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• It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Song, Busting Out

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• I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

  Tupac Shakur

  Drinking, Smoking, Just Being

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• You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.

  Lenny Bruce

  Law, People, Boss

  Interview with Steven Alan Green, jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fun, Grief, Waiting Rooms

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.147, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Mexican, Bail

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• When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away. I was there buck naked, humiliated, sitting in my own crap and urine - this is a metaphor. My ego had run off. Your ego is the biggest coward.

  Tim Allen

  Running, Reality, Ego

  “Tim Allen: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• 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.

  Tommy Chong

  Comedian, Activist

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• The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

  Danny Glover

  Death Penalty, Penalties, Bin Laden

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• How do you think jail was?! I got face raped by a woman... and I think I may have liked it.

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, May, Faces

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

  Richelle Mead

  Interesting, Car, Sound

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.43, Penguin

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• Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Writing, Men

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• To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Truth Is

  "Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

  Carson McCullers

  Jesus, Years, Two

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Home, People, Groups

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• I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Powerful, Thinking

  "The Riot Act". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

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