Elmira Prison Camp Quotes & Sayings

One of the most profound learnings of my life is this: if you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied. Many — Stephen R. Covey

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. — Bill Griffith

Apply Truth liberally to the inflamed area. — Stephen Colbert

I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age. — Meredith Brooks

I'm a promoter of masturbation. Don't sleep around ... learn yourself first! Guys do it, but girls don't. They should. — Taylor Momsen

I got out late winter. I was off on the exact day by thirty-some hours, which is not bad calculations. I made the decision when I went in to keep track of the days, for the simple reason that it was the intention of my jailers to jettison my sense of time and place. They brought you in a metal truck with no windows and took you out in the same truck or one damned similar. The rumor was that Bell Federal Penitentiary was somewhere in the plains of the Montana-Saskatchewan annex. The sight from my cell would not have refuted this. The white of the snow and sky filled my eyes like the sheet pulled over the head of a dead man. If it was not Montana-Saskatchewan, then it was the North Pole, or the moon. It was a signal to anyone who's ever doubted the terror of an idea that almost all of us in this prison that had no time or place were utterly guiltless of a violent act, unless one counts the violence of tongues. — Steve Erickson