States Is Not On Lockdown Quotes & Sayings

We will K'Vruck the world. — Karen Marie Moning

If an inmate swears at a guard, fights, or hides contraband like cigarettes or candy [Sheriff Arpaio has banned coffee, cigarettes, hot lunches, girlie mags & TV], she's kicked out of the tents and sent to lockdown--a tiny cell 10x12 feet that houses 4 women, instead of the 2 it was built for. There's no tv, no phone, & no a/c. Even though most of these women have drug problems, programs like NA or AA are considered 'privileges' forbidden to those locked down. The only way to get out of lockdown is to volunteer for the chain gang--the first & only female chain gang in the United States (as of Aug 1997). Volunteers sign a paper that says they know & accept the conditions on the chain--cleaning Phoenix streets, painting the center strip of miles of highway, & burying AZ's indigent. The accusation of 'cruel & unusual punishment' is quashed by the argument that the chain gang is purely voluntary. After all, if you prefer, you can spend the whole year in lockdown. — Jane Evelyn Atwood

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader. — Brian Reynolds Myers

As I always say, leopard print is a neutral. — Leandra Medine

The birds disturbed from the network of waterways beneath the barges wheeled in the sky, calling plaintively. — Iain M. Banks

He had always thought that death was black nothingness, but he had not counted on being awake for it. — Kay Kenyon

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude. — Andy Stanley

If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time. — Demetri Martin

I think of my own epitaph, still to be written, and all the places I'll wander. No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. -Violet — Jennifer Niven

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner

I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about. We're about helping people. — Blake Mycoskie