Escapistmagazine Quotes & Sayings

He shook his head to clear it, but the world grew dark and angry and would not stay upright. The world did not like to be shaken. He understood that now. He wouldn't shake it again. He felt his feet sliding away from him on silent roller skates and reached for a wall for support. The wall cursed and dug its fingers into his arm, and was probably not a wall. It was probably a person. — Max Barry

I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury. — Albert Einstein

Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture. — Samuel Rutherford

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. — Mark Twain

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Would they have a life together anymore, after tonight? Or was this it? The end? — Chris Pavone

Who or what is an Ipod? — Alex Flinn

Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture. — Johan Huizinga

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. — Thomas Malthus

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do. — Illeana Douglas

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise. — Friedrich Nietzsche