Top 144 Arrested Quotes

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
Thomas Griffith
For me, ‘Arrested Development’ is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It’s so incredibly flawless and perfect.
John Krasinski
I reached the point where I was getting arrested all the time in London. I couldn’t walk down the street. London becomes a very small village, eventually. You run out of places. It was inescapable.
Pete Doherty
Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.
Ernst Thalmann
You look at ‘Arrested Development’ or ‘Community,’ we’re constantly either deconstructing genre or tone. We like to say it’s like being a mad scientist: you get to play in a laboratory and experiment with directions to take narrative in.
Joe Russo
I was very surprised to get a reading for ‘Arrested Development’ because it really seemed to be the opposite of that which I was known for doing.
Jason Bateman
We’ve grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.
Alexei Navalny
The truth of why I used to listen to Arrested Development on my Walkman was because if I didn’t, it would take me 20 minutes to walk to school. If I did, it took me 15. That’s the reason I loved it. I just had more of a kick in my step, more of a bounce, so I’d walk quicker.
James Corden
I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.
Bill Ayers
Don’t blame America for the thousands of Cubans who have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by Castro for peacefully protesting the regime.
Bob Menendez
During the 1942 Quit India Movement, I was a student at Gwalior High School. I was arrested by the British for participating in the movement. My parents then sent me off to my village where, again, I jumped into the movement.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The Musharraf government has declared martial law to settle scores with lawyers and judges. Hundreds of innocent Pakistanis have been rounded up. Human rights activists, including women and senior citizens, have been beaten by police. Judges have been arrested and lawyers battered in their offices and the streets.
Asma Jahangir
There are no ‘political prisoners’ as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
I’m usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they’ve aired. But I love ‘House of Cards,’ ‘The Killing,’ ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ loved ‘True Detective,’ and ‘Arrested Development’ when it was on. Also ‘The Wire,’ though I was way late to the game on that.
Finn Wittrock
I ran for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were four people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food market – they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an interesting to do.
Jerry Della Femina
The cinema saved me from being a delinquent. I could have been, but I didn’t get caught up. I never was going to get arrested or anything.
John Singleton
I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.
Steven Wright
It’s part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I’m being followed. It’s a feeling that comes from street juggling because I have been arrested so many times.
Philippe Petit
I’ve been arrested several times. I’ve been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I’ve also built a career out of negative reviews.
John Waters
I’ve never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.
Jesse Ventura
Those who misspent the government's money, they should

Those who misspent the government’s money, they should be arrested and locked up.
Jovenel Moise
I was always the young guy. And when you’re successful when you’re young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y’know.
Jim Carroll
In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie ‘Fargo,’ when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it’s a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn’t be there. I took that to heart.
Noah Hawley
I tried to help a shirtless man who was being arrested in Starbucks. He obviously wasn’t right in the head, but the police thought I was trying to make things worse.
Emma Healey
In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn’t have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.
Conan O’Brien
There has been no more principled opposition to racism than Jeremy Corbyn: he was getting arrested for protesting against Apartheid when the rest of them were doing deals and calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist.
Ken Loach
I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I’m older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.
Ben Eine
We had, like, the greatest time you could ever imagine doing ‘Arrested Development.’ And as grateful as we are for the careers we have afterwards, it was – we still miss it.
Jason Bateman
I got arrested for a dumb, dumb incident my second year in the NFL.
Pat McAfee
I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.
John Lewis
I’ve taught in prison; I’ve counseled people… I’ve been arrested; I’ve been to the psychiatrist.
John Waters
Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They’re not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.
Michael Moore
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.
Marcus Luttrell
I was a good little boy and a good student. I’ve never been arrested.
Michael Moore
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don’t get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
Lamar Alexander
If a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested.
Tom Wolfe
They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You have the government paying private prisons to feed and clothe each inmate, turning it into a damn business. And African Americans are set up for getting arrested.
Eddie Griffin
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
Tommy Cooper
Sabbath – a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
Ambrose Bierce