Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Brown

It is probably the worst-run jail I can remember seeing in my 30 years of practice. It's not working. It's broken.

Russell Brand

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.

Will Ferrell

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

Tupac Shakur

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

Waylon Jennings

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

Rudy Giuliani

People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be a murder of a person in custody, but you cannot destroy property. First person does it goes to jail.

Samuel Johnson

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.

J. C. Watts

Roger is going to jail for this contract. I don't know what more they want him to do.

Richard Holloway

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

Richelle Mead

‎Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.

Richard Bach

Perspective: use it or lose it.

Truman Capote

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

Travis Barker

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I`m just going to fly them out and let them hang. It`s all good.

Toyo Ito

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

William Saroyan

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

William Nicholson

Use your power gently.

Samuel Johnson

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

Thomas Jefferson

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.