Quotes About Famous Escape

#1. A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Nelson Algren

#2. Sometimes I wish I was in the movies ... Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody'd know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I'd just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.

Alan Heathcock

#3. Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.

Jostein Gaarder

#4. A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

E.W. Howe

#5. It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

Sarah Polley

#6. The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Blaine Lee

#7. Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.

Richard Corliss

#8. The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein one star differed from another, and which was great and which was not. And still the morning stars sang together.

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

#9. I was pretty sure I'd just had a nerdgasm.

Nicole Peeler

#10. When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

Cornelia Funke

#11. If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

Laozi

#12. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.

Robert Anthony

#13. I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

Robert Wyatt

#14. Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President ... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding.

Jon Stewart

#15. My true self contains every possibility.

Deepak Chopra

#16. If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

Gary D. Schmidt

#17. If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

Sparky Anderson

#19. I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

Kate Winslet