Scaping Quotes

#1. [E]scaping is its own special brand of pain, and tied to you always are the strings of the souls who didn't save themselves. ~ "The Worst You Ever Feel

Rebecca Makkai

#2. In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of "I don't give a damn what you think".

Sarah Vowell

#3. Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

Daniel Webster

#4. My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

W.S. Gilbert

#5. It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

Eugene Ionesco

#6. President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Ralph Nader

#7. So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

Francis Ford Coppola

#8. I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

John Amaechi

#9. Things Could Be Worse And Things Could Be So Much Better - that became the game, my running commentary on the streets of Manhattan, and I played it as well as the other slobs just trying to get by.

Joshua Ferris

#10. You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#11. The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity.

Will Self

#12. our world is a product of the medieval past

Judith M. Bennett

#13. Your character, your heart, your essence, that's what's important, because that's the real you. All the rest, our looks, the material stuff? It's

Kim Holden

#14. Seen through the eyes of a U.S. soldier, Afghanistan is a scary place.

Anand Gopal

#15. Hells yeah. You kidding? Gay men are hot.

Rachel West