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“The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.”

“I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded.”

Needs Long Government House Water Pay Sells Criminals Boat Meat San Francisco Tourists Discarded Excursions Expired Chum Alcatraz

Author:L. Neil Smith

“What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that too risky for the human population? We have to do the one-handed pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucets. "What is it they think we will do? Turn 'em all on full, run out into the parking lot, laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?”

Thinking Giving Humans Stories Running Pain Turns Laughing Style Population Ass Ems Pushing Funny Travel Twists Airports Parking Parking Lot Human Population Alcatraz Pushing Each Other

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.”

Ends America Streets Wall Criminals Alcatraz

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.”

Years Kind Stills Whole Joy Found Morning Years Ago Prison Complexes Enjoyed Atmosphere Stillness Quietness Pistols Alcatraz

Author:John Lydon

“Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.”

Views Window San Francisco Interrupted Cheer Up Girl Interrupted Alcatraz

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.”

People Made Half Millions Safe Islands Alcatraz

Author:Rick Riordan

“Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.”

Golf Beach Grass Golf Course Pebbles Pebble Beach Alcatraz

Author:Bob Hope

“It's like an Alcatraz around my neck”

Silly Dumb Necks Alcatraz

Author:Thomas Menino

“Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.”

“You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.”

Said Mother Worst Alcatraz

Book:Al Capone Does My Shirts

Source: Al Capone Does My Shirts