Jail Quotes - Page 33

• Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.

  Dean Martin

  Girl, Brother, Eye

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• Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail.

  Larry Flynt

  Sex, Winning, Names

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• Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

  Cassandra Clare

  Crazy, Pet, Tiles

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1055, Simon and Schuster

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• you see what I'm saying?" Mooner said. "Something else always comes along. You go to jail, you don't have to worry about anything. No rent to pay. No food bill to sweat. Free dental plan. And that's worth something, dude.You don't wnat to stick your nose up at free dental.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sweat, Worry, Noses

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hot Six: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.138, St. Martin's Press

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• WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD

  Shannon Hale

  Horse, Hair, Alive

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• 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.

  Joe Arpaio

  Gang, Chains, Changed

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• Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

  Ray Davies

  Cat, Order, Law

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• What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

  Charles Bukowski

  Needs, Drink, Intoxication

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• I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.

  Waylon Jennings

  Order, Law, Firsts

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• He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

  Johnny Cash

  Order, Law, Insane

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• Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink and drive. I will never drink and drive again. I may even start my own group fashioned after MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, but I'll call it AWLTDASH, Alcoholics Who Like to Drink and Stay Home.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Mother, Home

  "Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea". Book by Chelsea Handler, 2008.

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• The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Sweet, Childhood

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches." (James Frey, pg.1)

  James Frey

  Men, Lunch, Three

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.7, Penguin

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• We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes

  Charles Bukowski

  Country, War, Hero

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.475, Canongate Books

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• There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Law, People, Police

  Speech,Williamsburg, Va., 1 May 1965

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• If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Philosophy, Acting, Painting

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• Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Funny Sports, Way

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• Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Land, Justice

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• Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

  Milton Friedman

  Army, Alcohol, Drug

  "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett". Milton Friedman, The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989.

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• There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

  Thomas Frank

  Integrity, Source, Claims

  "Obama Is Right About Fox News" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.

  Sloane Crosley

  Birthday, Queens, Gun

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• My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Brother, Betrayal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns are already gone in so much beer. And when the visiting hour is over, the young lady comes out with the stink of jail in her elegant clothes; and the prisoner goes back to his cell with the lady's perfume in his jailbird's suit. And I'm left with the smell of beer. Life is nothing but trading smells.

  Italo Calvino

  Beer, Cells, Smell

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

  Jesse Jackson

  Men, Two, Weapons

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• People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, People, Unemployment

  "Rev. Jackson opens up about son" by Katie Glueck, www.politico.com. August 17, 2012.

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