Escaping The Prison Quotes & Sayings

Never write about martial arts..
if you've never been in a real fight. — Toba Beta

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it - just as though one were in a madhouse or prison. — Anton Chekhov

I wouldn't be satisfied simply escaping from my prison of silence; I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison. Sometimes I get that way. It's a surprisingly useful frame of mind. — Scott Adams

If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping. — Dane Cook

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. — Steve Buscemi

I thought about how I had come to know him a little bit over the last few months and how he was now getting out, escaping from prison, just like he always said he would. I realized I wanted to escape as well. I wanted to leave this town and this lousy job, go home, collect my family, and drive away to Washington State, Colorado, the Florida Keys, or up to northern New England and find a new job where I wasn't exposed to the worst parts of the worst people every day. — Robert Reilly Jr.

I always just try to write the best songs that I can at any given time, and sometimes those songs are for me, and sometimes they're for other people. And that's to be evaluated after the fact. — Chris Stapleton

There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure. — Noma Bar

I could put some serious hurt on Prince Not-So-Charming if I need to. — Carey Corp

The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate. — Alan Dershowitz

Timing is everything in life and in golf. — Arnold Palmer

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise. — Salmon P. Chase

There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can't stop writing his name on underpasses where he's running from the law. And there's this whole beautiful paragraph about how to run is to write. And, you know, it's obviously about the writer's life. — Pam Houston

I want this," I panted, as if he couldn't tell. "You want this?" He reached down and stopped my hand, pressing his over mine, pressing my palm against him. "You want my cock inside you? You want to feel it? — Julie Kriss

The dream of radical transformation: of one day waking up and finding himself a wholly different (more confident, more serene) kind of person, of escaping that prison of the given, of feeling divinely capable. — Jonathan Franzen

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful. — Kahlil Gibran

Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath. — Erik Larson

I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains. — Carlo Rovelli

Scott: What's the cure?
Doctor: There is none.
Scott: But that isn't what I heard. The optimist in me translated the gloomy news as "Scott, you will be the first person in the world to be cured of spasmodic dysphonia." And I decided that after I cured myself, somehow, someway, I would spread the word to others. I wouldn't be satisfied escaping from my prison of silence. I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison. — Scott Adams

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. ( ... ) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. ( ... ) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich. — Michael Novak

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music. — Zakk Wylde

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away. — John Lydon

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping. — Pierre Fresnay