Quotes of: Jailed Keyword

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Don DeLillo

Celie: The jail you planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in.

The Color Purple

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

Solomon vs. Lord

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

H. L. Mencken

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Polly Toynbee

Drink and drive are prohibited in all countries. Otherwise, alcohol will drive us to hell or at-least to jail.

Dr Sivakumar Gowder

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

Thomas Frank

If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!

Trey Gowdy

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

Ralph Abernathy

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

Joe Arpaio

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

Mike Singletary

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Quentin Tarantino

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

Ai Weiwei

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson

I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.

Alicia Keys

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

Eskinder Nega

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Barry White

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

Gene Simmons

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Howard Dean

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

Nikki Sixx