Escapees Quotes

#1. I have to acknowledge that the sea is a cup of death, and the land is a stained altar stone. We the living are survivors huddled on flotsam, living on jetsam. We are escapees. We wake in terror, eat in hunger, sleep with a mouth full of blood.

Annie Dillard

#2. The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

Phyllis Rose

#3. Arranging to be emotionally tortured for four years by basketball loving escapees from the Silmarillion.

Tanya Huff

#4. Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#5. Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

Antonin Artaud

#6. A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia.

China Mieville

#7. The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

Bob Dylan

#8. War is never a meritocracy for the casualties.

Harlan Coben

#9. Yet there was something else, something different about her this time, like a room where someone has thrown out all the flowers while you were gone: a change in the interior you don't even notice at first, not until you see the stems sticking out of the garbage.

Herman Koch

#10. The Sufis, like all mystics, are singers of a homesickness that is a kind of hope; all of us are exiles in the world, they tell us, longing to get back to the place that is our rightful home.

Pico Iyer

#11. If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.

Satoru Iwata

#12. [The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state.

Jacques Barzun

#13. When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.

George Hamilton

#14. We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

Mark Doty

#15. I do a lot of yoga. There's more and more guys getting into yoga these days, and I find that helps me as well.

Nick Youngquest

#16. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. ... quite naturally, I am curious about behaviour which does not fit the natural patterns, which floats suspended at some unexplored level of the sentient sea and defies the tides and waves of society.

David Case

#18. It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

John Cusack