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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. -- Jack Henry Abbott
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. -- Francis Bacon
Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped. -- Mickey Rooney
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989. -- Nadia Comaneci
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. -- Samuel Johnson
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. -- Victoria Woodhull
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. -- Jean Paul
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. -- Camille Paglia
I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home. -- Bella Heathcote
Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp. -- Brian Bosworth
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. -- Coco Chanel
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. -- Elinor Wylie
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 eaten? -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. -- Barbara Amiel
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. -- Samuel Johnson
We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly. -- Evan Davis
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 you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there. -- Klaus Kinski
I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. -- Manfred von Richthofen
But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. -- Ronnie Barker
I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot. -- Adele
Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again. -- Wil S. Hylton
I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began. -- Willard Wigan
I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts. -- Chris Farley
Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites. -- Michael Eric Dyson
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. -- Steve Jobs
I escaped a North Korean prison camp -- Shindong
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped! -- Gary Paulsen
I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning. -- George Herbert
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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped. -- Virginia Woolf
The past can be escaped only by embracing something better. -- Nicholas Sparks
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker. -- Frederick Douglass
[M*A*S*H] didn't get released by FOX, it escaped. -- Robert Altman
I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital. -- Keith Teare
I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it? -- Edward St Aubyn
In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped. -- Arthur C. Clarke
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped. -- George Herbert
The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed. -- Steven Morrissey
You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly. -- Rumi
Woman, I'm trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention? -- Melina Marchetta
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large. -- Ryan Ross
Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care? -- Sarah Dessen
The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped. -- Christopher Hitchens
It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated. -- Jeaniene Frost
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved. -- Richard Whately
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped. -- Jeanette Winterson
I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South. -- William S. Burroughs
When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. -- Virginia Woolf
I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West. -- Christo
On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it. -- Stefan Zweig
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. -- Danny Boyle
When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia. -- Kate Zambreno
Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped. -- Stephen King
On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding. -- Julien Gracq
There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. -- Douglas Adams
I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped. -- Evel Knievel
The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. -- Donald Barthelme
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. -- Mark Twain
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night. -- Elie Wiesel
I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped. -- Rodney Dangerfield
If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped. -- John Wayne
not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo. -- Walt Whitman
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped. -- Izaak Walton
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped. -- Greg Egan
Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail. -- Donald Barthelme
I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans. -- Thom Yorke
I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt. -- John Hunt Morgan
I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series. -- James Belushi
The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike. -- Michael Chabon
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear. -- Seneca the Younger
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. -- Aulus Gellius
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.] -- George Herbert
He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world! -- Patrick SÃ¼skind
Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health. -- Jane Austen
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor. -- David Starr Jordan
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. -- Colleen McCullough
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. -- Mark Twain
The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral. -- Dallas Willard
Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped. -- Vladimir Voinovich
Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements. -- Marcus Aurelius
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. -- E. B. White
What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us. -- Heraclitus
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. -- Dante Alighieri
Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it. -- Anna Paquin
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it. -- Friedrich Schiller
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him. -- Agnes Repplier
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. -- Francis Crick
Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
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
I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner. -- Dalai Lama
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. -- Paul Gauguin
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. -- Samuel Johnson
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. -- Wilfred Owen
There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God. -- Bill Hybels
They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection. -- John Szarkowski
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
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
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way. -- Walter Savage Landor
When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver. -- Sharon Olds
Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped. -- Charles Bukowski
History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force. -- F. M. Powicke
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital. -- David Frum
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. -- James Madison
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians. -- James R Newman
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
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped. -- Adam Gopnik
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist. -- Seth Godin
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. -- Elinor Wylie
One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion) -- George R. R. Martin
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles. -- George Orwell
It hadn't escaped her notice that when she let him believe the worst of her, still he vowed to stand beside her and work toward forgiveness. -- Elizabeth Camden
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 it. -- George Gissing
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me........ -- Suzanne Collins
All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave -- Jean Baudrillard
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. -- Alberto Manguel
As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them. -- Epictetus

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