Chain Gang Sayings

#1. He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

T.C. Boyle

#2. Are we not all shipwrecked, ... condemned to death? ... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults ...

Henri Frederic Amiel

#3. Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

Sam Cooke

#4. Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine and continued normal growth.

John Dewey

#5. The only way out of this mess, of course, is to take steps to ensure that you control the idiots that you become. To take your chain gang, hand in hand, and lead them. The best way to do this is with a list.

Jonathan Nolan

#6. The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

Randall Jarrell

#7. Small chains wound their way through the trigger guards with little bronze locks at the end of each row. It was like a chain gang for weapons. Some of them might be good, some of them might be bad, but there was no way to tell until somebody picked them up.

Craig Johnson

#8. We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

Robert W. Bly

#9. A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.

Louis Wain

#10. A yellow dog barks at him from behind a chain-link fence, all possessive ferocity and no damn balls. Just like the gang-banger kids. They think a pistol equals cojones. That's why they tuck them into their pants.

Lauren Beukes

#11. You could scratch the itch of whatever sin you wanted: glory holes, gang bangs, girls on girls on guys. There were rooms for fetishes, and pits for fucking, and every tie-up, chain-down, in-the-air you could ask for. Especially

J.R. Ward

#12. she was enveloped by a wave of calm. Funny how just seeing the giant logo of an apple with a bite out of it did that to her.

Michelle Gagnon

#13. Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Niklaus Wirth

#14. On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss ...

Rob Brezsny

#15. Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride.

Arturo Perez-Reverte