Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

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.

Ed Gillespie

The senator is trying to escape 20 years of his record in the United States Senate.

It would be hard to see how the other defendants are going to escape any penalty given what's happened here.

David Brooks

The rich escaped while the poor were abandoned.

I've never seen anything like this in my life. The smell was putrid. And when the wind blew, you couldn't escape it.

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.

I'm gonna be in your face 24/7! you can't escape Dr. Phil!

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.

The noise doesn't escape there. It hits that roof and comes right back at you.

Marcus Aurelius

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.

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

It is too soon to estimate the extent of fuel supply disruptions, if any. However, even if we are fortunate enough to escape with minimal damage, the shutdowns in preparation for Rita will have some effect,

They're not being left behind. They're being left out altogether. This allows a lot of small, rural schools to completely escape any accountability.

Jack Layton

I don't think they can run far enough or fast enough to escape it,

Homeowners who live here nine months of the year and go home to escape the heat of our summers are not tourists.

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.

Tracy McGrady

It was just good to get out and have some sort of escape from all of the things I've been going through personally.

It's ridiculous that so many New Yorkers are leaving for Florida to escape the estate tax.

It started with peasants, who played their music at the end of the day or week. It was a way for them to escape from work.

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.