Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Corgan

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence

John Glover

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

Alan Dershowitz

The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.

David Adams

Many of the folks that settled this region were from Alabama, escaping the excesses of Reconstruction.

Athanasius

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.

Clifford D. Simak

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

Charles Schumer

The president, again, ought to have some nonpolitical person look into this and see what should be done. The standard shouldn't just be escaping indictment.

Big Sean

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

Two Chainz

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

Busta Rhymes

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

Action Bronson

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

Common

Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

Baz Luhrmann

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

Damon Albarn

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

Curtis Jackson

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

Aloe Blacc

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.

Barry Lopez

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

B. R. Ambedkar

Neither god nor soul can save society.

Bijou Phillips

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

Bhagat Singh

The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march

C. S. Lewis

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.