Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Matthew Lee

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

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.

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.

Al Ries

Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.

Al Pacino

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

Al Pacino

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

Al Pacino

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

Al Lewis

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

Akshay Kumar

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

Ludivine Sagnier

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.

Byron Dorgan

This is a very positive step for our farmers and ranchers who are coping with losses from weather-related disasters.

Chuck Palahniuk

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Sherri Shepherd

I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

John P. Kotter

Leadership is about coping with change

Tessanne Chin

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. Its my coping mechanism.

Max Brooks

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

John Ridley

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

Michael Glover

We're not coping very well at all. The fact that it was during Christmastime is very hard.