Klansmen Sentenced Quotes

#1. The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

Joseph Brodsky

#2. The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.

Cath Crowley

#3. I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

Susan Kay

#5. Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

Studs Terkel

#6. We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Ellen Goodman

#7. I simply wish to offer my fart-helt apologies, sir, for you're just an honest man doin' your job, and I'm a dishonest lad doin' mine, and of the two, you have far more reason to hang your head high than does I.

Peter David

#8. I drifted off after a while, staring at the only star visible through the thick covering of leaves. Hope seemed a futile wish, but I troubled the lonely star to grant it anyway.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. And if you ever need self-validation,
Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

Morrissey

#10. A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Thomas A Kempis

#11. Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

Anne Fadiman

#12. The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Samuel Johnson