Jail Quotes - page 4

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard. (Amnat Ruenroeng)
I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores. View quote
Bobby Vinton
With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail. View quote
Brian Baird
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again. View quote
Barry White
I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one. View quote
Chen Guangcheng
I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing. View quote
Chris Isaak
I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock'n'roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock'n'roll. View quote
Gary Glitter
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record. View quote
Luther Campbell
I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema. View quote
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself. (Marc Wallice)
Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized. View quote
Nicholas Pileggi
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us. View quote
Peter T. King
I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance. View quote
Randy Quaid
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. View quote
Tommy Chong
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail. View quote
Tommy Chong
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality. View quote
Yvette Clarke
We do not jail people for their opinions[.]. View quote
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Sheriff Bart [waking up a drunk Jim in jail]: Are we awake? Jim "The Waco Kid": We don't know. Are we black? Sheriff Bart: Yes we are. Jim "The Waco Kid": Then we're awake, but we're very puzzled. View quote
Mel Brooks
Jail Inmates: Eighty fff.... Eighty fff.... Eighty fff.... Eighty fff.... Eighty Six! View quote
Mel Brooks
Imagine if the government chased sick people with diabetes, put a tax on insulin and drove it into the black market, told doctors they couldn't treat them, and then caught them, prosecuted them for not paying their taxes, and then sent them to jail. If we did that, everyone would know we were crazy. Yet we do practically the same thing every day in the week to sick people hooked on drugs. The jails are full and the problem is getting worse every day. (Billie Holiday)
What was the most important thing for (Mandela) was his release from prison and nothing else. He cherished that freedom more than anything else and forgot why he was put in jail. View quote
Robert Mugabe
I wanted to look at how people deal with death ... Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is? View quote
John Roecker
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced - there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. View quote
Henry David Thoreau