Under Arrest Quotes

#1. I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

Mike Tyson

#2. I can't be under arrest right now," I said back to him. "I don't have the time.

Jim Butcher

#3. There's one in every family. When the police calls in the middle of the night and says We've got a family members of yours under arrest and you know directly who it is. In my family we have seven of those ... And they are all my Mom!

Christopher Titus

#4. David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all.

Margo Kingston

#5. You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

Derek Landy

#6. I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

Derek Landy

#7. Attention, aboard the shuttle! You are under arrest! Surrender immediately! Come out slowly, in single file, with your hands behind your heads! Leave all weapons behind. Comply and your lives will be spared!

Christina Engela

#8. You are under arrest for murder, attempted murder and general conspiracy to be an asshole. - Harry Bosch

Michael Connelly

#9. Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#10. I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing.
But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.

Ellen Schreiber

#11. I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

Jim Butcher

#12. You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Carrie P. Meek

#13. Dr Caldwell stares at her dispassionately. "Now go and get a security detail," she says to Dr Selkirk. "I want this woman under military arrest. The charge will be attempted sabotage." Melanie

M.R. Carey

#14. Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

Stephen King

#15. He clears his throat. 'Do you want to go to a movie or something?' The wings stop flapping. 'I can't. I'm sort of under house arrest.'
'Till when?'
'Till pigs fly and hell freezes over.'
'Soon, then.'
'Any minute.

Laura Ruby

#16. When Martha gets out she'll be under house arrest in her big $40 million mansion in Bedford. Boy, that'll teach her. She's only allowed out of the house for doctors visits, grocery shopping, or to dump more stock.

David Letterman

#17. In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home.

Evan Osnos

#18. The grace and mercy by which you are not arrested for not paying your daily oxygen bills, is the grace that is sufficient to take you through successfully. It's the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Enjoy it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. She had been privileged to live outside of Time, to enter and leave at will, looting and manipulating, weightless, invisible. Now Time had claimed her again, put her under house arrest, taken her passport away. Only an animal with a full set of pain receptors after all.

Thomas Pynchon

#20. It is impossible for a Westerner to imagine the deadening torpor of a protected life under house arrest. Eventually, one is grateful for the smallest outing outdoors
a lovely picnic in a burqa, being allowed to watch the men and boys fly kites or swim.

Phyllis Chesler

#21. When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#22. Martha Stewart is now under house arrest. So she'll go to her $40 million 153-acre estate. So she's going from the big house to an even bigger house.

Jay Leno

#23. Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.

Lisa Eley

#24. It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

John Hunt Morgan

#25. Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

Robert Breault

#26. When Kirsten carried out a portable defibrillator the size of a breadbox, I very nearly went into cardiac arrest. Which, let's face it, would probably fall under the category of 'most ironic thing ever'.

Emmett Spain

#27. I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#28. I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.

Jennifer Johnston

#29. You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#30. Enforcement priorities and arrest patterns must not lead to disparate treatment under the law, even if such treatment is unintended. And police forces should reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.

Eric Holder

#31. I could manage my life so much better if an app could tell me exactly when my parcels will be delivered so I don't spend the day under virtual house arrest.

Jen Lancaster

#32. Halt! We are attempting an arrest!"

"Yeah, we're aware," Quinn muttered under her breath.

Ash Gray