Quotes About Jail Birds

#1. Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

Albertus Magnus

#3. I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.

Julie Harris

#4. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

Haruki Murakami

#5. The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.

James Altucher

#6. You really liked having him in jail, like people who shut birds up in cages on the excuse that they're protecting them from their enemies.

Costas Taktsis

#7. Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and grace in one's moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation,

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#8. Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.

Chris Ware

#9. The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#10. We always want to love the recipients of our charity," the doctor said, negotiating a sharp bend in the road with a surprising demonstration of steering skill, "but it is not necessary. Indeed, it is sometimes not possible.

Alan Bradley

#11. The world is filled with negativity. I want people to watch me and think, I feel good, and I'm going to make somebody else feel good today.

Ellen DeGeneres

#12. There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

Richard Moe

#13. Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

Peter Ustinov

#14. It felt like dying, but the part that really hurt the most was coming back to life.

Skye Warren

#15. If winter were a person, I would kill them. I would go to jail for sunshine, birds singing and the smell of fresh cut grass hmm fresh cut grass.

Sonya Watson

#16. You can't be a bad girl, unless you actually do something bad."

-Megan Barnett

E. Van Lowe