Escapement Quotes

#1. Each time it goes around a little bit, a second goes away."
"Where?" I asked, as the pendulum swung again. And again.
He winked at me. "It escapes. That's why they call it that. Escapement.

Kristopher Jansma

#2. Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

Clive James

#3. Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

Marcus Garvey

#4. Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain! ... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

Yvonne Strahovski

#6. I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.

Tony Greig

#7. We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that delivers more widespread green behaviour is going to need to be cleverer that that.

Chris Powell

#8. Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.

Jose Antonio Bowen

#9. Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

Ramakrishna

#10. Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

Bruno Dumont

#11. Let's just do the thing where we go and see whatever starts next.

John Green

#12. It's the dying that makes the living matter.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#13. But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route

Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#14. There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.

Lucas Neff

#15. If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#16. Bingo, motherfucker--this shit's for real.

Nevaeh Lee