Jail Quotes - Page 34

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  If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

  Johnny Depp

  Love, Family, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fate, Men, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.68, Ballantine Books

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• If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

  Apolo Ohno

  Sports, Dad, Father

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• I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

  James McGreevey

  Ministry, Prison, Enjoy

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• Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

  Nelson Mandela

  Thinking, Organization, Midnight

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

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• I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Struggle, Yesterday

  "President Nelson Mandela One-on-One". "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. May 16, 2000.

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• 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

  Mean, People, Gone

  "I love Chopin. He's my dawg". Interview with Ian Gittins, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2001.

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• This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.

  Penn Jillette

  Couple, Dad, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Locked Up, Arrested, Locked

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

  Jesse Jackson

  College, Race, Class

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• Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Rights, Hymns, Darkness

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