Prison Fourteen Years

Famous quotes containing the words fourteen years, prison, fourteen and/or years:

“I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man’s having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)