Inmates Quotes

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
E. M. Forster

Love, Another, Rather

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
Robert De Niro

Truth, System, Class

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Samuel Richardson

Mother, Husband, Wife

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
Julie Burchill

Women, Living, Start

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
John Grisham

Educated, Places, Types

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.
Joe Arpaio

Nice, Care, Put

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.
Bobby Scott

Education, Time, Good

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Maria Monk

Ignorance, Children, Made

You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates?
Joe Arpaio

Live, Fight, Living

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott

Respect, Past, Long

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.
George Jackson

Black, Nation, Reading

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
Laura Prepon

Best, Cool, Sex

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
Joel McHale

Beauty, Sometimes, Around

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, 'I don't want to hear those words.'
Charles Moore

Father, Sunday, Words

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.
Clifford Irving

Trouble, Committee, Accused

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