Wardens Quotes - Page 2

• When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Jail, Demand, Letters

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Writing, Texas

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.

  Malcolm X

  New York, Trying, Green

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Thinking, Months

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• The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lock picking or forging shooting permits in countries not favoring their projects. In short: for those who have a sense of poetry. For those who are pilgrims. For those who can tell a story to four year old children and hold their attention. For those who have a fire burning within. For those who have a dream.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Dream, Sex

  "12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2014.

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• If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.

  Tom Robbins

  God, Thinking, Fjords

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.195, Bantam

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• Individuals get caught up in the policy of their country. In prison, for instance, a warden or officer is not promoted if he doesn't follow the policy of the government - though he himself does not believe in that policy.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Believe, Government

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• As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.

  Jeanne Woodford

  Tonight, Answers, World

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• When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

  Julius Erving

  Running, Strong, Player

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• I'd blurted out the question only to keep him from noticing that I was working my hands free, but the Warden behind me, some young brown-haired surfer dude, yelled a warning. "She's getting loose!" Narc.

  Rachel Caine

  Hands, Warning, Surfer

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Thin Air”, p.194, Allison & Busby

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• Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.

  Scott Lynch

  Peace, Children, Night

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1253, Del Rey

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• Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Confusion, Together, Ugly

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.

  Connie Willis

  Girl, War, Airplane

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• Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my life, I've known it was waiting for me, but now I'm not sure I can face it. They'll want to absorb me, make me one of them, and I won't change. I won't! I want to stay me." Jared sighed and she saw his dark gaze was fixed on the veiled window. "Claudia, you're the bravest person I know. And no one will change you. You will rule here, though it won't be easy.

  Catherine Fisher

  Daughter, Home, Dark

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• I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Play, Two

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• I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

  Clifford Irving

  Inmates, Trouble, Accused

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• Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

  Khaled Hosseini

  Needs, Injustice, Flocks

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.296, A&C Black

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• As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Men, Likes, Failing

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

  Jane Campion

  Running, Winter, Cutting

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.

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