Famous Quotes & Sayings

We always escape with a victory. But it's just always been tough to go over there.

What the rule proposes to do is limit the spread and intensity of a mattress fire, which would give people more time to escape from their homes.

We want people to come into this room, into the auditorium, and we want them to escape and forget it's 2006.

We're not doing it to escape anything. We're doing it to help kids.

Elizabeth Hand

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

George H. W. Bush

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

We are talking about people plotting to escape from a sheriff department, plotting to kill witnesses. We take this very seriously,

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Anna Netrebko

For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.

Jean Fontaine

Thus oft a struggle to escape - But lands us in a still worse scrape

Colin Morgan

The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

Vince Vaughn

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

Alberto Gonzales

Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred,

No one should be able to escape justice by not turning up when they're supposed to.

Romesh Gunesekera

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.

David Whyte

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

The only way these guys can escape higher fuel prices is by raising fares. The industry is working hard to raise prices. And so far they have been successful.

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

Rene Saguisag

Now that they are free men, if they have really escaped as the military claims, then the more they should be able to communicate with us with ease.

No coach, no matter how successful, ever completely escapes the pressure of winning.

Nobody's plotting to escape the accountability; they're just trying to help students get a fair chance. These are not malicious errors.

Lorene Scafaria

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

Kathleen Blanco

I can't feel we escaped the worst, because we don't know what the worst is.

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

Elinor Wylie

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

I wrestled the exact way that I wanted to wrestle (in the semifinals). I was hoping to get an escape there in the second period but I just didn't get it done when I needed to.

I think it all comes down to fundamentals. This is not a time to start forgetting things. It will be a matter of inches and seconds that will win the championship. You work hard all year to get to this point, and you have to be able to sustain. You can only escape for so long.

Al Gore

to consolidate its power and escape any accountability for its use.

His past is his past. You can't escape that. Go out and speak to him, hopefully get the reports and make sure that the system treats him just like any other defendants -- fairly.

His past is his past. He can't escape that.

His name was Wells Crowther. He actually escaped but then went back in and pulled 10 other people out. I'm wearing it in his memory.