Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Bill Bryson

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Dave Barry

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Alan Coren

The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

Charles Bukowski

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Aldo Leopold

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

Abu Bakr

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

A. J. Jacobs

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

Alice Englert

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

Albert J. Nock

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Carrie Snow

I'd like to have a boyfriend in prison so I'd always know where he is.

Barry Pepper

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

William Shakespeare

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

Alice Walker

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

Frances Townsend

We are disappointed that they were all housed together. We are disappointed that their restrictions in prison weren't more stringent.

Nada Doumani

For us what is significant is the way in which the prisoners are treated.

Asif Ali Zardari

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are worse prisons than words.

Charles Dickens

Are there no prisons?