Prisoner Quotes

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.