Escaped Quotes

256 Escaped quotes by 214 unique authors

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. — Donald Barthelme
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine… — George Gissing
The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical… — Charles Lindbergh
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. — George Orwell
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel. — Lorene Scafaria
.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their… — P.J. O'Rourke
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard… — Joan D. Vinge
I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same… — Daniel D. Palmer
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,… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world… — Evan Davis
I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it? — Edward St Aubyn
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly… — Eben Alexander
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. — Danny Boyle
I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin… — Klaus Fuchs
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. — Aulus Gellius
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone… — Joseph Wood Krutch
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?"… — Richard P. Feynman
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped… — Cecil Frank Powell
To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll… — Peter Jackson
I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play… — John Travolta

Who Wrote These Escaped Quotes

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