Escape Hatch Quotes

#1. What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

John Updike

#2. People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future and whatever happens to you after you die - it's all melted together. Death isn't the escape hatch the way it used to be.

Douglas Coupland

#3. The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.

Stephen Jay Gould

#4. Ideas come easily to me, enacting them comes harder. I usually let things go. Perhaps it's an escape hatch, my way of allowing myself to double back and ease out the side door on a lot of my schemes. Irresolute about my social life, obsessive in my work.

Kathy Reichs

#5. The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Sydney J. Harris

#6. Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world ... but other times I think of it as an escape hatch from this one. I guess it's the same thing.

Tom McNeal

#7. My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Jakob Dylan

#8. Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.

Chuck Wendig

#9. I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He establishes the category of "founder of discursivity" for the authors he likes. Slippery, perhaps, but you can see what he means.

Paul Fry

#10. In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?

Ellen Goodman

#11. Everything in 'The Tudors' is initially based on my historical research, and the fact is that the most unlikely scenes were the ones which were probably most based on reality. I prefer to be as real as possible, and there is so much of that story that you just can't make up.

Michael Hirst

#12. We're far from having too much horsepower ... my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.

Mark Donohue

#13. The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. - Will Smith

Will Smith

#14. But really, all memories are like paintings: They can be incredibly vivid and lifelike. But in the end, they both just remind us that we only get to live any particular moment once, even if we remember it forever.

Gwendolyn Heasley

#15. Within the nature of God is a strength that is fashioned in His perfection. Strength flows from the fountain of God's integrity. Honest people are the strongest people.

James MacDonald

#16. People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.

Nikki Reed

#17. Sometimes a tough girl who is used to saving herself needs a hero. And

Ker Dukey

#18. Oh, God, the lovebirds," Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. "I hate happy couples.

Cassandra Clare

#19. The person who fails the most wins.

Seth Godin

#20. Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the present world is the real one, and that it's in bad shape, but expecting to be repaired.

N. T. Wright

#21. At Chelsea, a sacking is just another day at the office.

Andre Villas-Boas

#22. If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)

Kate Atkinson

#23. Desire can make anything into a god.

Mark Doty

#24. I really like Thanksgiving turkey ... it does not take only time in Houston that you look at natural breasts.

Arnold Schwarzenegger