John Waters Quotes

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

I really don't like being in jail.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

You can keep a person locked up too long.

The world is a penal institution.

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

To arrive is to be in prison.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

I did get to Beersheba [in Israel], but only to prison there. It was actually very nice, with television and free international calls. I would recommend it even over many hotels I have known. It was a shame to leave.

Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.

There's no way out of here.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.