I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It’s fluid, it’s like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.
When I was released from prison, I didn’t want to leave my house for the first three months.
My character in ‘Prison Break’ needs to be formidable. In reality, I’m not very tough at all.
I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it’s impossible to create a new story.
I had an inkling that I was going to prison before I actually did, because I’d witnessed my father and my elders going through it. It seemed like that’s the way that you got respect, which is a sad thing.
The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
I don’t know what goes on in prison. I’ve never been in trouble with the police in my life.
I come from a place where to go to prison is like a rite of passage. It’s something that you gain respect for. I used to watch people come out of prison, older cousins and the like, back in the day, and be in awe of them.
I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors’ prison.
You can see how prison could affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a year. Because eventually, it starts to eat away at you. And if you don’t work at yourself mentally or physically or spiritually, eventually you’re going to be swallowed up by circumstance.
Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let’s invest in monkey bars.
Baltimore’s just like, it’s like being in prison but being on the yard the whole day.
It’s very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it’s such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who’s been to prison.
Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.
We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and balances at all levels of the system. And we have the Department of Justice prosecutors backing us up.
I’ve struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a ‘prison of perfectionism,’ holding myself to a standard I couldn’t possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure.
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions – everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Work was always necessary to survive. Then I decided the goal should be to survive without working. But now I have much more work than I had before. Hunting for freedom, I’ve found the real prison. but at least it’s a prison I’ve chosen for myself.
We were all blocked from western media, outside information. We were captured in a virtual prison cell. People would disappear in the middle of the night – not every day, but sometimes. We hear about it, and we never knew what happened inside the prison camps. I learned about them after I escaped.
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days – not all days, but some – you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren’t executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
You have to realize that myself and others that have been wrongfully convicted of crimes, we’ve dealt with the situation. You realize that you’re not going to survive in prison or progress as a human being if you allow yourself to continue to hold on to this negative energy.
Shouldn’t one of the goals of prison be getting as many of the inmates as possible back out into the world to be responsible citizens? Aren’t we just wasting generations of human potential by keeping over two million people behind bars?
The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.
Filesharing in Sweden can’t get you into prison, so there’s nothing criminal about helping people to fileshare.
I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
To be honest, I would probably rather spend, like, a month in prison than spend a month rehearsing with some musicians, metalheads. I pick prison over that, really. And I say that knowing well what prison is like, so don’t get me wrong here. Prison sucks big time.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a dark place.
All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire jail will likely be infected. Most jails have people living in very close quarters.
It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.
It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs – a criminal life. I had friends that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They chose the bad way.
I had just done a movie prior to ‘Employee of the Month’ called ‘Let’s Go to Prison’ and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn’t wait to get the chance ’til I played a bad guy.
I’m very appreciative and humbled by the success of ‘Prison Break.’
I went to this rubbish school. I asked the careers master what he thought that I was going to do with my life, and he said I could always visit criminals in prison.
I won’t perform in Cuba until there’s no more Castro and there’s a free Cuba. To me, Cuba’s the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
In 1990 there were about 300 scripts being written demanding the release of Nelson Mandela. And suddenly we watched Mandela walking out of prison. So those scripts had to be destroyed.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.
I’ve definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.
On the surface, you think you wouldn’t have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in ‘The Hobbit.’ It’s not prison; it’s a good gig. But you know it’s going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: ‘Gee, I’ve not seen my house for months.’
Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.
That wasn’t the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.
There’s a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.
I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison… Being an American citizen didn’t mean a thing.
The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It’s the worst experience I’ve ever had in my life. Besides death.
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.
After I met Ajay Bhuyan, we thought of making the English TV show ‘Prison Break’ as a Telugu film. Ajay put it all down, but somehow, we felt it would not work. Then ‘Dhada’ emerged.
The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan’s prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.
