Amanda Hocking Quotes

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

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

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

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.

I really don't like being in jail.

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

Prison house for the soul

Are there no prisons?

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

There are worse prisons than words.

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons - and they are the jailed and they are the jailers, but because they have the keys in their own hands, they think they are free.

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.