Escaped Quotes

256 Escaped quotes by 214 unique authors

There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the… — Juan Rulfo
Woman, I’m trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention? — Melina Marchetta
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when… — Neil Gaiman
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad,… — Neil Gaiman
Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped… — Alexandra Bracken
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being… — Logan Pearsall Smith
Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health. — Jane Austen
Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for… — Klaus Kinski
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night. — Elie Wiesel
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form. — Janine Benyus
Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the… — Alfred Russel Wallace
When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down.… — Erin O'Connor
Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000… — Sylvia Earle
I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital. — Keith Teare
I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West. — Christo
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction… — John Clute
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. — Francis Bacon
I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. — Jack Henry Abbott
And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three… — William Scranton
I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full… — Jesse James
Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the… — Edward Carpenter
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as… — Ambrose Bierce
When we escaped from Cuba, all we could carry was our education. — Unknown Author
When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice. — Proverb

Who Wrote These Escaped Quotes

214 authors contributed a total of 256 Escaped Quotes, led by these top contributors: