Getaways Quotes

• So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Artist, House, Littles

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• I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

  Joe Lando

  Thinking, Illinois, Hiking

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• One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?

  John Perry Barlow

  Government, Sight, Imagination

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• To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

  George Orwell

  Military, War, Fighting

  George Orwell (1998). “Two wasted years, 1943”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited.

  Alfred Adler

  Love, Marriage, Real

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• You can run but you can't hide

  Emily Giffin

  Running, Escaping, Marine Corps

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.353, Macmillan

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• I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.

  Gena Showalter

  Grandmother, Race, Promise

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.258, Harlequin

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• What attracted me to A Perfect Getaway was that I sorta played a girlfriend role for, you know, 85 percent of the film. That was really interesting to me, because I'd never really played a girlfriend before.

  Milla Jovovich

  Girlfriend, Perfect, Interesting

  Interview with Nisha Gopalan, film.avclub.com. October 8, 2010.

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• But the good news, the crime rate is down. Isn't that amazing? Less banks are being robbed. Well, sure. A, there's less banks. B, the banks don't have any money left. And C, nobody's got gas money for the getaway car. So, right there, crime is down!

  Jay Leno

  Car, Gas Money, News

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• Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.

  Courtney Solomon

  Would Be, Scripts, Cool Movie

  Source: collider.com

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• Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Trying, Cojones, Care

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• I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor.
  MC's be out like bank robbers,
  Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor;
  DJ...the getaway driver.

  GZA

  Rap, Hip Hop, Fleeing

  Song: Living In The World Today

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• I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere.

  Kevin Gates

  Morning, Writing, Night

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• These are Gerald Celente's three Gs: gold, guns and a getaway plan.

  Gerald Celente

  Gun, Gold, Three

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• It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Hot, Would Be, Mexico

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• I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.

  Michael Jackson

  Want, Performing, Phenomenal

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from May 17, 2016

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• Stridey-Man: " Want 2 vaca w/me?" William: "Romantic getaway for 2? UR not my type" Stridey-Man: "I'm everyone's type. So U in or out? 'Cause I'm thinking about hooking up w/P, wherever he is. U'd just B extra baggage." William: "In" Stridey: "Knew you couldn't resist me. B ready in 5." William: "Right on. Make it 10. I want 2 style my hair for U. U know, just how U like it." Stridey: "Now U only have 8 minutes 2 do UR hair.

  Gena Showalter

  Men, Thinking, Hair

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• I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default "getaway" city.

  Carrot Top

  Home, Cities, Orlando

  "Comic's haven is Orlando, but Cabo was heavenly". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 13, 2011.

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• This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch of thugs - the perpetrators could be heard shouting that they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad. Nor was it spontaneous. It was planned to inflict maximum damage, during a staff meeting, with automatic weapons and a getaway plan. It was designed to sow terror, and in that it has worked.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Islamic, Thug, Avenging

  "How to Answer the Paris Terror Attack". Article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.metafilter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Dangerous Situations, Car, Dangerous

  "'They wanted to really kill me': How Sacha Baron Cohen fled for his life as angry mob tried to stone him" by Mark Jefferies, www.mirror.co.uk. May 18, 2012.

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• Is it true? You had a clean getaway and risked it all for me?" I Swallowed. "It wouldn't have been a clean getaway without you.

  Richelle Mead

  Clean, True You, Without You

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.266, Kensington Books

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• You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

  George Foreman

  Helping Others, Best Effort, Giving

  George Foreman (2010). “Knockout Entrepreneur: My Ten-Count Strategy for Winning at Business”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My wife thinks a B&B is a romantic getaway. I think it's creepy, sharing coffee with strangers who were eavesdropping on you the night before.

  Tom Papa

  Coffee, Night, Thinking

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• I’m not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it’s on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

  Alexander Wang

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  "Alexander Wang Gang". Interview with Diane Von Furstenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

  Dave Eggers

  Blue, Views, Oakland

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