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You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself. -- Edie Brickell
It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed. -- Farrah Fawcett
I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse. -- Eskinder Nega
Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained. -- Gary Zukav
I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up. -- Chen Guangcheng
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. -- Noam Chomsky
I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. -- Stokely Carmichael
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy. -- Peter B. Lewis
In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. -- Nong ?uc Manh
Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way. -- Tom Brokaw
I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment. -- David Soul
My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived. -- Wayne Dyer
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced. -- Markus Wolf
Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work. -- Tina Brown
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. -- Ellen Willis
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. -- Khaled Hosseini
Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. -- Nong Duc Manh
I'm more than willing to go to places and talk to people who believe that I am an illegal alien who deserves to be jailed. I want to look them in the eye and say, 'What makes you think I'm any different from you?' I think for our generation, immigration rights is a civil rights issue. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail. -- Bob Dylan
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. -- Lillian Hellman
Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources. -- Judith Miller
in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked -- Helene Cixous
Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed? -- Ai Weiwei
People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote. -- John Lewis
In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. -- Nong ?uc Manh
Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me. -- Maureen Johnson

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