Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Buscemi

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Kevin James

Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

Umberto Eco

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

Ozwald Boateng

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Eminem

Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

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.

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.

Helena Bonham Carter

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

Michael Chabon

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

Scott Bakula

When you get into any kind of period work, or any kind of prosthetic work, or anything that alters what your 8×10 looks like, it's the joy of escaping and becoming somebody else. And it is definitely freeing.

Leonard Bernstein

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

John Cusack

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

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.

Julie Walters

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

Michael Novak

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich.

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.

Mitch Albom

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

Rajneesh

You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else and the other may be more harmful. Don't go on escaping problems, face them. The problem is that you are tense, so the goal should be how to be non-tense, not, smoking or not smoking. Meditate. Relax your tensions without any object into the sky, allow catharsis to happen. When you are non-tense these things will become absurd, foolish, and they will drop. Food will change, your styles of living will change.

Robin Hobb

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.