San Quentin Prison Quotes & Sayings

I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book. — Donald Ray Pollock

I do not know why there are more people in the world that dare to be different than there are people who dare to make a difference. — Tonny K. Brown

Disembarrass the other. — Anthony Trollope

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history. — Louie Giglio

We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface. — Kellie Thacker

quieted my mind and spread my focus to every rustle, creak, and call from the wild lands. Nature had a rhythm akin to the beating of a drum or heart, — K.J. Colt

A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression. — Brendan I. Koerner

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. — Walter Scott

The real test of 'knowledge' is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100 per cent correct. Consequently, truth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge. Over — Yuval Noah Harari

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it yo me
I can see it
another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe. — Daniel Handler

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together. — John Zorn

It's easy to have high morals when you'd be safe naked in the middle of San Quentin Prison. — Ed Williams

If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them. — Andrew Flintoff

It was what she'd been doing in every aspect of her life lately, wanting to hole up in the backseat and not be asked to drive. Just hand over the keys to someone else. — Cara McKenna

I lost my temper on stage. — Michael Richards

It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets. — Martin Winterkorn

When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist ... Wait, are you talking about me? — Hiroko Sakai