Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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.

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

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

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

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

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet.

The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

I relate to any prison movie, as long as it has some authenticity.

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.

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

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

What are you doing here?” [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.” (Max II to Max)

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.