Escapade Quotes

• He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

  John Dryden

  Horse, Moving, Pride

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• Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Looks, Innocence

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

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• I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Adventure, Profound

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• Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Important, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

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• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.

  Anne Heche

  Dog, Fire, Years

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• The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Dream, Book, Destiny

  "The House I Loved". Book by Tatiana de Rosnay, 2012.

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• He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Moving, Suicidal

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• Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another;she's happier gromming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less diginity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a fault, and-a darling!

  Georgette Heyer

  Horse, Party, Eye

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• The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?

  Michael Atherton

  Team, Archives, Pages

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• But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Apology, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.71

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• When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

  Michael Zaslow

  Romantic, Lonely, Mean

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• Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.

  Virginia Woolf

  Girl, Fun, Creating

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.161, Wordsworth Editions

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• As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

  Don Bluth

  Jobs, Hero, Journey

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• The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar "queen", alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

  Umberto Eco

  Song, Kings, Queens

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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