Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romesh Gunesekera

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

I've never seen anything like this in my life. The smell was putrid. And when the wind blew, you couldn't escape it.

It would be hard to see how the other defendants are going to escape any penalty given what's happened here.

This is a place where I can escape to fantasyland.

Elizabeth Hand

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

William Shakespeare

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Nobody's plotting to escape the accountability; they're just trying to help students get a fair chance. These are not malicious errors.

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

George H. W. Bush

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

Homeowners who live here nine months of the year and go home to escape the heat of our summers are not tourists.

Benjamin Franklin

He that pays ready Money, escapes or may escape that Charge.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

Alberto Gonzales

Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred,

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

Koizumi's victory triggered a rally in stocks and fueled optimism about an escape from deflation.

John Gay

Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill

That was big time. In that situation, I would have been happy to escape with two runs scored. That play held them to one and more importantly, it kept the momentum on our side.

Jay Harrington

We were very fortunate to escape with a win over such a good team and a well-coached team.

Jack Layton

I don't think they can run far enough or fast enough to escape it,

His past is his past. He can't escape that.

Rita Ora

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

Al Gore

to consolidate its power and escape any accountability for its use.

Tracy McGrady

It was just good to get out and have some sort of escape from all of the things I've been going through personally.

It started with peasants, who played their music at the end of the day or week. It was a way for them to escape from work.

Fidel Castro

There will be no escape for those who want to live like parasites at any price, at any cost, outside the law,

We always escape with a victory. But it's just always been tough to go over there.

What the rule proposes to do is limit the spread and intensity of a mattress fire, which would give people more time to escape from their homes.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Vince Vaughn

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

Jean Fontaine

Thus oft a struggle to escape - But lands us in a still worse scrape

Colin Morgan

The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

Anna Netrebko

For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.