Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Al Pacino

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

Edward Gibbon

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

Edmond H. Fischer

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

Edith Piaf

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

Anton Chekhov

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

Bram Stoker

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

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

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.

Abraham Verghese

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...

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.

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.

Alamgir Hashmi

But there is no escaping / that manhood is merely / a revision of one's first edition.

But there are still a lot escaping justice.

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.

Clive Anderson

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

E. B. White

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

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.

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.

Gayle Forman

Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

Helena Bonham Carter

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

This is a place to escape. You're escaping the everyday rigors of life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

Isaac Asimov

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

G. H. Hardy

I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Chris Van Hollen

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping

Hugh MacDiarmid

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.