Top 126 Fugitive Quotes & Sayings

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.

'Established' is a good word, much used in garden books, 'the plant, when established' ... Oh, become established quickly, quickly, garden! For I am fugitive, I am very fugitive - Those that come after me will gather these roses, And watch, as I do now, the white wisteria Burst, in the sunshine, from its pale green sheath. Planned. Planted. Established. Then neglected, Till at last the loiterer by the gate will wonder At the old, old cottage, the old wooden cottage, And say, 'One might build here, the view is glorious; This must have been a pretty garden once.

No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.

Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.'

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

I am haunted by interrupted acts, introspective as a leper, enchanted by a repulsive clew, a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs. Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?

Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

We believe Russian-American relations are broader and larger than emotions and mutual grudges, including the situation with the U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden.

One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans.

I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

I'm not really a fugitive.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds - large, light, and fugitive.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.