Quotes of: Inmates Keyword

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

John Grisham

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

E. M. Forster

I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.

Selenis Leyva

M. Gustave: May I offer any of you inmates a plate of mush?

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Soren Kierkegaard

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

I Love Everybody

When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

Uzo Aduba

Sullen Warder: The only way Borden's going to disappear is if I leave him out there with the other inmates.

The Prestige

Bob: Ladies and gentlemen, I, Ranger Bob, cordially invite you to become inmates of Alcatraz.

The Rock

[after an angry inmate throws something at him] Sefton: Give that man a Kewpie doll.

Stalag 17

Fat Ass: You don't understand! I'm not supposed to be here! Inmates: Me neither! They run this place like a fucking prison!

The Shawshank Redemption

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

Jack Henry Abbott

Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason for fighting. Because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks...

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Killosophy

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

Neighborhood Watch

Bachelorhood: all the fun of married life and more prosperity, leaving lots of descendants to boast of their father’s memory to their fellow inmates.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

Maria Monk

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

Pete Wilson

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

Joel McHale

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Bobby Scott