Exit Quotes - Page 5

• There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Thread

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• We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my hands balled into tight fists around his shoulders, and he wrapped his short arms around me and squeezed tight, so that I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, 'God we must look so lame,' but it doesn't matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.

  John Green

  Real, Hands, Car

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.164, Penguin

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• If you are flammable and have legs, you are not blocking a fire exit.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Block, Fire, Legs

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• A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

  Chris Murphy

  Domain, Doorstep, Concepts

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• It wasn't about wanting to die or having nothing left to live for; it was about letting go. You live your life doing what you're supposed to do, following the rules, following your conscience no matter what your gut tells you - and most times, that's okay. Control is good. It allows you to believe in certainty and absolutes, like lining up the perfect shot. But when you hold on for so long, and hold on so tight, every once in a while you have to close your eyes and jump." Kelley Armstrong - Exit Strategy

  Kelley Armstrong

  Letting Go, Believe, Eye

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Exit Strategy”, p.24, Seal Books

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• Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.

  N.D. Wilson

  Rip, Turtles, Broken

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• Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary.' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change.

  Walter Wink

  Biblical, Fighting, Simple

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• I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

  Edna O'Brien

  Mistake, Knows

  Edna O'Brien (1985). “A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien”, Plume

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• I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.

  Arj Barker

  Writing, Second Chance, Car

  Doug Benson, Tony Camin, Arj Barker (2005). “The Marijuana-logues: Everything About Pot That We Could Remember”, p.139, Crown Archetype

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• Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not even overly upset by the idea of a biological transition without significance, without pain or suffering, and ultimately without fear.

  Philippe Aries

  Death, Pain, Ideas

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• I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.

  Allison Silverman

  Player, Yale, Littles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn't do that to my family, my friends ... But to have fate step in and give me a shove, that's a different matter. Then I have the exit, without the guilt. I am ashamed of myself for thinking like this. But more than anything, I am frightened that it makes me feel so much better to think about it. Sometimes it eases the terror, the sense that I am condemned eternally to this hell.

  Martha Manning

  Suicidal, Fate, Thinking

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• I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.

  Frank Abagnale

  Men, Doors, Years

  "Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake". Book by Frank W. Abagnale, 2002.

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• There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Home, Needs, Use

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• You can help determine your team's enthusiasm for the change by focusing on the entrance of potential while you are working through the exit of the past.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.

  Marc Rich

  Top Management, Two, Growth

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• The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Views, Perspective

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

  David Letterman

  Central Park, Robins, Sparrows

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• A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dream, Struggle, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly Howard Dean will be of no use steering her to the exit. It’s like Micronesia telling Russia to denuke.

  Maureen Dowd

  Russia, Pennsylvania, Use

  "Wilting Over Waffles" by Maureen Dowd, archive.nytimes.com. April 25, 2008.

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• I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, World, Accompany

  "A short biography of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)" by Patrick Chastenet, translated by Lesley Graham,

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• Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.

  Victoria Laurie

  Honesty, Powerful, Selfish

  Victoria Laurie (2007). “What's A Ghoul to Do?: A Ghost Hunter Mystery”, p.7, Penguin

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• That must be strange, cheating on your wife with a flight attendant. They're in bed and she's says, 'In the event that wife should come home early please notice the location of the nearest emergency exit.'

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, Home, Wife

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• It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.” The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. “It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.

  James Nares

  Design, Balance, Umbilical Cord

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• Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Home

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