Jail Quotes - Page 28

• Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

  Will Smith

  White, Guy, Knows

  "Fictional character: Will". "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Mistaken Identity", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.

  Theresa Wayman

  Couple, Thinking, Guitar

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• When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.

  Kirk Douglas

  Years, Names, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

  Kamala Harris

  School, Two, Age

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

  Bo Jackson

  Kids, Neighborhood, Cemetery

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• 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.

  Seth Shostak

  World, Royal, Columbus

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• You need a visualization of the outside obstacle and what can be better than a wall. For the Palestinians it means a division from each other, because the wall didn't separate Palestinians from Israelis, it separated them from themselves. This is the reality, and the wall is a kind of jail to the Palestinians.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Wall, Mean, Reality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.

  Rosa Parks

  Opportunity, Long, Decision

  "Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies". NPR Interview, October 25, 2005.

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• Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know

  Will Ferrell

  Wall, Writing, People

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• There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

  Eric Hoffer

  Brother, Chance, Ends

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.

  Hugh Laurie

  Girl, Fashion, Years

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• People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety.  You learn to look into yourself.

  Nelson Mandela

  Honesty, Humility, People

  "South Africa looks to legacy of Nelson Mandela, its great reconciler and first black president", www.foxnews.com. December 31, 2012.

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• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, Serious, Chance

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• Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.

  Bill Hicks

  People, Sick, Drug

  "Rant in E-Minor". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.

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• The issue isn't gun control but state control -- obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties.

  George Jonas

  Running, Gun, Issues

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

  Ted Nugent

  Years, President, Next Year

  "Gun-toting rockstar creates headache for Romney". "The World Today" with Jane Cowan, www.abc.net.au. April 19, 2012.

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• Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

  Benjamin Barber

  School, Men, Society

  Benjamin R. Barber (2000). “A Passion for Democracy: American Essays”, p.221, Princeton University Press

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• There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

  Fanny Burney

  Running, Hate, Giving

  'Camilla' (1796) bk. 3, ch. 12

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• Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Advancement, Young

  "Fictional character: Hammer". "The Cocoanuts", www.imdb.com. 1929.

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• As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

  Charles Bukowski

  Goes On, Forget, Graveyard

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• If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Giving, Young

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

  Arundhati Roy

  Justice, Silence, Mind

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• If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

  Salman Khurshid

  Would Be, Investment, Discouraging

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• In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.

  Rodney S. Quinn

  War, Taught Us, Alcohol

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