Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

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

It escapes all logic. We aren't able to understand all things. It is a matter of faith ... to trust that God is in control.

We escaped the snow. My husband was sick and tired of shoveling the snow.

Jean Fontaine

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

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.

Lorene Scafaria

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

Al Gore

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

His past is his past. You can't escape that. Go out and speak to him, hopefully get the reports and make sure that the system treats him just like any other defendants -- fairly.

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

His name was Wells Crowther. He actually escaped but then went back in and pulled 10 other people out. I'm wearing it in his memory.

I wrestled the exact way that I wanted to wrestle (in the semifinals). I was hoping to get an escape there in the second period but I just didn't get it done when I needed to.

I think it all comes down to fundamentals. This is not a time to start forgetting things. It will be a matter of inches and seconds that will win the championship. You work hard all year to get to this point, and you have to be able to sustain. You can only escape for so long.

Joe Allen

We can just put the old fire escapes in Jack's parking space,

He was losing 2-1 in the third round and got an escape with about 15 seconds left in the match and then took him down. But that didn't matter because we needed a pin to win the match. He got him on his back and pinned him with about four seconds left.

He was trying to escape to Pakistan when our men nabbed him.

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

Kathleen Blanco

I can't feel we escaped the worst, because we don't know what the worst is.

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.

We want people to come into this room, into the auditorium, and we want them to escape and forget it's 2006.

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

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.

We are talking about people plotting to escape from a sheriff department, plotting to kill witnesses. We take this very seriously,

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.

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.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

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.

Rita Ora

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