Out Prison Pen Quotes & Sayings

I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison. — Daniil Kharms

I realized ... I've been granted a lucky life ... all along ... because I was able to meet you. — Yuuki Obata

My mother had told me to never be afraid to apologize when I was wrong. She had said it would have saved her and my father a great deal of trouble if they had only followed that rule. Then she had sighed, and added that I must never think that an apology could completely erase what I had done or said. Still, it was worth trying. — Robin Hobb

Stop trying, & start trusting. — Rick Warren

The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. — John Lydon

Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about. — Sanford I. Weill

I will find you.
In the farthest corner, I will find you. — Mary E. Pearson

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. — Theodore Roosevelt

Who among us has not wanted to be transformed? I had lived all my life surrounded by extraordinary people, and some nights I would fall asleep wishing to wake up worthy of them. — Sarah McCarry

a square black hole that yawned darkly beneath a stone archway. — Erin Hunter

Dig deep enough into anyone and you'll find a scared little boy or scared little girl trying to get out. It's just a question of how deep you have to scratch to find them - that and the question of what it really is that scares the child. "Shit. — Mark Lawrence

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. — Richard Bach

Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing. — Pearl Zhu

Under Zia's regime life for women in Pakistan became much more restricted. Jinnah said, "No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women." But General Zia brought in Islamic laws which reduced a woman's evidence in court to count for only half that of a man's. Soon our prisons were full of cases like that of a thirteen-year-old girl who was raped and became pregnant and was then sent to prison for adultery because she couldn't produce four male witnesses to prove it was a crime. — Malala Yousafzai

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too. — Richard Branson

A match as a pen
Blood on the floor as ink
The forgotten gauze cover as paper
But what should I write?
I might just manage my address
This ink is strange; it clots
I write you from a prison
in Greece — Alexanderos Panagoulis

For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power. — Andrew Hodges

I think bad taste should be a felony. — Margo Kaufman