Scottish Prisons Quotes

#1. I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, 'Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!

Stephen Richards

#2. After a couple of weeks in Polmont, I started to become more assertive and began arguing with older, bigger boys. I loved it. This is where my ugly side would make some scary and unpredictable appearances. Even to this day, I can go from a happy-go-lucky cunt to the devil on acid.

Stephen Richards

#3. At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

Goran Ivanisevic

#4. I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.

Harvey Ball

#5. Sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles;

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. (Stoner lowered the gun to Carlos's crotch.)
Should we continue splitting hairs? (Stoner)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. I'll tell you, the screws' faces painted an even greater picture than my words can describe. We kept emptying our pots in the hall for two weeks before the screws started emptying our piss pots for us, but this didn't last too long after we started calling them bellhops.

Stephen Richards

#8. In Polmont, everyone was acting the hard man and giving it the large. I had to fight or cosh or do something to be accepted. I can tell you, it was better to be in a gang than being on your own, and I'd do anything in Polmont, no questions asked!

Stephen Richards

#9. the world is ever so slightly but uncorrectably out of focus, that there are no absolutely precise answers. Whatever

Barry Lopez

#10. Even angels need angels," she whispered. "And sometimes devils too.

Michael Robb

#11. What stood in one corner of the cell was disgusting: two empty disinfectant canisters and one well used and well stained piss pot, the sort of chamber pot that people would train their babies to be potty trained on before they would learn to use the toilet.

Stephen Richards

#12. There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

Jeff Greenfield