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.

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.

Edward Abbey

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Ben Horowitz

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

Dominique de Villepin

Accusations are useless.

Jose Mujica

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

Abu Bakr

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

Aldo Leopold

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

Charles Dickens

Are there no prisons?

Alan Moore

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

David Henry Hwang

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Chaka Khan

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are worse prisons than words.

Edward Flynn

It's a strange thing to say, but it made me feel proud of the neighborhood I live in -- even though my neighborhood is in prison right now.

Charles Colson

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Aung San Suu Kyi

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Antonio Porchia

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.