Quotes from Prison Break

You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say, the things we should say. We speak in code and we send little messages. So now, plainly, simply, I want to say that I love you both very much.

Believe me, I understand the impulse to pull the trigger. But if we lose ourselves, we lose everything.

Oh fate, you mysterious bitch.

Sneaky son of a bitch!
You think he found the hole?

Darwin wins inside these walls. Not Einstein. Darwin.

We are captives of our own identities, living in prisons of our own creation.

You know what I want, to not have to be the older brother for my older brother.

Michael Scofield was like a storm. He was beautiful and frightening and mysterious.

Mahone: "The people I was working for, they kind of sold me down the river. Now, I just wanna go out to sea."
Scofield: "That's funny, I'll have to remember that one."

Sara: "First week in Fox River, you promised me if you got out, you'd take me to dinner."
Micheal: "Well, maybe after we wrap this up, we can stop off and get you a burrito on the way back to Pope's house."
Sara: "I don't know what you're used to, but anything short of a filet mignon is not gonna cut it with me."

Sucre: "I got three words for you."
Maricruz Delgado: "Yeah?"
Sucre: "We gotta run!"

Abruzzi: "Okay, after Lincoln, we go alphabetically."
C-Note: "Whoa, hold on, A-bruzzi!"

Veronica Donovan: "You two have the most dysfuntional idea of love I've ever seen. What, he beats you up to keep you off the streets, so you get yourself thrown into Fox River with him? To what, save him? I deserve to know. I loved him as much as you did."
Michael Scofield: "Past tense for you, maybe, not me."

Scofield: "Wouldn't think you'd find the daughter of Frontier Justice Frank working in a prison. As a doctor, no less."
Sara: "I believe in being part of the solution, not the problem."
Scofield: "Be the change you wanna see in the world' [Pause] What?
Sara: "Nothing. That was just my senior quote."
Scofield: "That was you? This whole time, I was thinking it was Gandhi."

Are you telling me that there's a hole in Fox River that you don't want to get into?

Concrete is my specialty... can you dig it?

You know, your parents must be so proud of you, man. I mean, hitting the trailer-park trifecta: racist, pedophile, and stupid.

Does not a warm hand feel better than a cold shank?

Boy's a bit confused about his pigmentation.

Welcome to Prisneyland, Fish.

I’m not asking you to love me. I already screwed up that chance a long time ago. I’m asking you to love yourself. You can still put the brakes on this thing.

Michael: "You still think you're running the show, don't you?"
Kellerman: "You still think I'm not?"

C-Note: "What the hell is up with you and Thailand, huh?"
T-Bag: "Black-market surgery, anonymous transplant donors, 'hes' dressed like 'shes'. What's there not to like?"

Cop: "So this is your car... Mrs. Miller?"
Sucre: "Mrs. Miller's my wife, I'm Mr. Miller."

Michael: "Tell me that’s not what I know it is."
T-Bag: "Don't worry. Before I ate it I committed it to my photographic memory. I would have tattooed it to my body but I didn’t have the time."

Kellerman: "They haven't bitten in five minutes, you pull the semi, you tell them it's fixed. You release traffic."
William Kim: "And do what?"
Kellerman: "You want the rabbit to hop, move the carrot."

Abruzzi: "Nice! Trousers are a little bit too short, don't you think?"
Lincoln: "Chop your feet off, you're good at that."

My God, you cons are slower than a spelling bee full of stutterers.

You know what they say about weather in the Midwest. If you don't like it, wait an hour.

Sucre: "What if your math is wrong?"
Scofield: "You'll drill into one of a dozen gas lines behind the wall. There'll be an explosion and we'll be burned alive."
Sucre: "But you're good at math, right?"

Preparation will only take you so far. After that you gotta take a few leaps of faith.

Sucre: "The Ricans, we got genetically higher blood pressure, you know that? My cousin, he died from too much stress!"
Scofield: "I thought you said your cousin was moving in on your girl?"
Sucre: "That's my other cousin. But thanks for bringing that up, jackass!"

C-Note: "What you need, man?"
Scofield: "PUGNAc."
C-Note: "I only speak english, white boy."
Scofield: "It's an insulin blocker, standard over the counter variety. You can get it at any pharmacy."
C-Note: "You can get that at medical then."
Scofield: "I cant get it in medical."
C-Note: "Why not?"
Scofield: "Because they're already giving me insulin shots."

She probably thinks I went sissy up in here. 'Passion'... got more than one syllable, too much taIking!

Lincoln Burrows: "Michael? Why?"
Michael Scofield: "I'm getting you out of here."
Lincoln Burrows: "That's impossible."
Michael Scofield: "Not if you designed the place..."

Sucre: "What's another word for love?"
Scofield: "What's the context?"
Sucre: "Oh, you know, the 'I love you so much, I ain't knocking over a liquor store again'-context."

I'll be very clear here, because you and I face an evolutionary gap.

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.

All I see is a black hole. And sooner or later, they're going to suck each one of us into it. But when they come for me, I'll take as many of them with me as I can.

Lincoln Burrows: "Man, it's quiet out here. Inside, there was always noise, you know. Someone yelling, guards making rounds. Kinda got used to it."
Michael Scofield: "You're right, we should go back."

Abruzzi: "You're just doing this out of the goodness of your heart, fish?"
Michael Scofield: "That's right, John. The heart. Remember what that is, don't you?"

Michael: "I made you something. It's an ashtray."
Sara: "I don't smoke."
Michael: "Yeah, I know. But they only let us make these and jewelry, and I didn't figure you for the macaroni-necklace type."

Lincoln: "Your mom was paying her for French lessons."
L.J.: "Well, she earned the money."

And you're gonna find it how? What, you got a divining rod tattooed on your ass?

Arzt: "The acts we commit in this life determine where we go in the next. And he who commits evil can never hope for eternal happiness."
T-Bag: "Never been a goal of mine, doc. I'm more a here-and-now type."

C.O. Geary: "Guy with a six ERA, signs for 4 million a year, sucks at his job, he still gets a raise."
Brad Bellick: "You suck at your job. You should ask the Pope for a raise."

Why don't you send us all someplace cooler, like Africa?

You wanna rile up the meat in concrete, turn up the heat.

Haywire: "I just shared a secret with you. Now it's your turn."
Scofield: "You wanna know what the tattoos mean?"
Haywire: "Yeah."
Scofield: "Nothing."

Sara: "You seem nervous."
Scofield: "I do?"
Sara: "You're sweating."
Scofield: "Must be the needles. Never really got used to 'em."
Sara: "Somehow with diabetes and that tattoo I find that hard to believe."