(363 quotes found)
“I've been a prisoner and lived in prison for a while; I've been a missionary in China; I've been a vampire and a priest in Poland in World War II. I guess without bragging or being too prideful about it I'm excited when I look back at these things that I've done. I've had lots of wonderful opportunities.”
Willem Dafoe
“I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
George Rogers Clark
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
Winston Churchill
“We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.”
Mary Worley Montagu
“I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.”
Christopher Love
“My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”
William Penn
“Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
William S. Burroughs
“[He was convicted in June 2000 of criminal solicitation. He served two years in prison, where he reportedly struck a friendship with] Son of Sam ... a very, very nice, friendly man, but a little overweight.”
David Berkowitz
“Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest /thought, action /is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.”
Cesare Pavese
