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.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.
I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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.
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
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 was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
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.
I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
Nineteen centuries would have been worth very little if we had not made some advance in welcoming the stranger, in feeding the hungry, in clothing the naked, and in caring for the 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.
I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.
I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
I don't want to live like a prisoner.
Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.
There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
