Cellblock 6 Quotes & Sayings

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard. — Bill James

My biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people. — Trista Sutter

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable. — Donovan

a book is a box of words until you open it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go - what floor or what cellblock. For me, you go in, and you're just in with a bunch of other people who are in serving their time. You're just in there. It's just boring. You're in detention, essentially. — Jayson Werth

He lowered his head until his mouth was above mine, so close I could taste his minty breath. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I spent as much time as I could with Ghosh. I wanted every bit of wisdom he could impart to me. All sons should write down every word of what their fathers have to say to them. I tried. Why did it take an illness for me to recognize the value of time with him? It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, "Seize the day! What matters is THIS moment!" Most of us can't go back and make restitution. We can't do a thing about our should haves and our could haves. But a few lucky men like Ghosh never have such worries; there was no restitution he needed to make, no moment he failed to seize.
Now and then Ghosh would grin and wink at me across the room. He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live. — Abraham Verghese

Why'd you come after me? he says. Back at Hopetown. That cellblock was on fire. You'd hafta be crazy to go in there. But you did. You risked yer life to save mine an you didn't even know me. — Moira Young

Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid. — Tammy Faye Bakker

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. — Evan Esar

As Mrs. Song would observe a decade later, when she thought back on all the people she knew who died during those years in Chongjin, it was the simple and kindhearted people who did what they were told
they were the first to die. — Barbara Demick

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. — Steve Jobs

But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever. — Robert Burns