Death Row Inmates Quotes

#1. There are no mental health services offered to Death Row inmates. For whatever healing is done they themselves must be the healers.

Thomas Cahill

#2. I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.

David Letterman

#3. The window is the reason the death row inmates go to the visiting room to see their lawyers and investigators. The lawyers think their clients want to see them. No, they want to see the window.

Rene Denfeld

#4. The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the litigation level. Also, DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 death-row inmates.

John McLaughlin

#5. Adversity awaken in us a strong-will to a daring life.
You become a stronger person with each adversity that you overcome.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Patti Smith

#7. I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment ... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

John Paul Stevens

#8. The blowing mist, filled with the light of the moon, was seeking to swallow the lamps of the heavens.

Anne Rice

#9. On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

Ray Davies

#10. It's an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it's the soul
But it's not the soul: it's the animal or the man itself
In its way of existing.

Alberto Caeiro

#11. In some way I felt I was never good enough until I started fighting. I was always striving to show my worth and value.

Randy Couture

#12. I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Mike Leigh

#13. Nobody knew anyone else's private world. In the end, they were all alone as inmates on death row, side by side. Sometimes you could get a look at one another with a little pocket mirror, cell to cell, but that was all.

Janet Fitch

#14. 'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.

Cary Fukunaga

#15. When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me after the film has come out and say, "My daughter idealizes that character. You're her hero." That's what I aim for. We're in the business of making heroes.

Evangeline Lilly

#16. Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

Swami Satchidananda