(363 quotes found)
“The insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner.”
William Shakespeare
“The prison helps a great deal in keeping me grounded in the character, ... When you're surrounded by 3-foot thick walls, you really understand how impossible his task is.”
Wentworth Miller
“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.”
Edward R. Murrow
“In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, / And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? / Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: / The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.”
Bible
“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.”
Lord Byron
“[Meanwhile, within the prison walls, a little bit more of Michael's plans come into view each week -- only, however, for those who know where to look.] Each episode is going to have a number of puzzles for viewers to solve, and there are six or seven different subplots swirling around, ... It's really going to be something that rewards the attentive and patient viewer.”
“He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison”
Daniel Drew
“we don't need steel bars to be prisioned”
RAJA
“There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.”
