Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

Connie Mack

When people escape the last tyrannical regime in the Western Hemisphere, they should not be greeted with water hoses and pepper spray. This is not the American way,

We escaped the snow. My husband was sick and tired of shoveling the snow.

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

Jean Fontaine

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

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Jay Harrington

We were very fortunate to escape with a win over such a good team and a well-coached team.

Al Gore

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

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.

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.

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.

Agnes Bruckner

I'm a huge gamer! I love playing 'World of Warcraft.' It helps me wind down and escape reality for a few.

Tupac Shakur

So complicated to escape fate. And you can never understand til' we trade places

After the game, I told our kids, 'We escaped with the win and our lives. . . . It was scary.

Elizabeth Smart

I know she was not able to escape when she was up in the hills,

Nancy Grace

I'm just stunned that he would risk his own escape to go back and seek vengeance.

Efraim Zuroff

There's some speculation that he might have escaped to other countries,

is pleased to hear that Mr. Hamill escaped and is safely in the hands of the U.S. military.

We expected Ferndale to play tough and they did. We're glad to have escaped with a win.

Jonathan Banks

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

Tom Johnson

I needed to escape from stress before stress took me down again,

In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.

Carly Rae Jepsen

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.

John Clute

Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.

Romesh Gunesekera

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.