Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that goes on in America -- a belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding. America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn't have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature.

Eddie Van Halen

I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.

Elinor Glyn

Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.

Augusten Burroughs

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

Edward Abbey

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

Albert Einstein

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Abbe Pierre

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

Paul Simon

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Alexander Lukashenko

In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better

Hillary Clinton

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

Eve Ensler

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

Stockwell Day

People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

J. C. Watts

Roger is going to jail for this contract. I don't know what more they want him to do.

Bhagat Singh

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

Bill Hicks

Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.

James Fitzgerald

He just did not wish to spend all his life in a jail in Colorado. He wanted better jail conditions.

Geoffrey Fieger

I can tell you what the results will be if he represents himself. He will go to jail and starve.

Jimmy Brown

It is probably the worst-run jail I can remember seeing in my 30 years of practice. It's not working. It's broken.

E. O. Wilson

He's going to jail for us and I think the symbolism is he's not doing this alone.

Edwin Ortiz

I was going to be in jail the rest of my life, so I might as well try something to get out.

Albert Ellis

He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of that.