Best 82 quotes in «exit quotes» category

Boo," I said. He reacted as all mutts react when I confront them. He leapt from his chair and dove for the nearest exit, shaking in terror. In my dreams. He glanced at me and started looking for Clay. It never failed. Mutts only quaked when I appeared because it usually meant Clayton wasn't far behind. I was nothing but a harbinger of doom.

But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.

Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway.

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

Can’t take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We can’t give up. Ever.

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.

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

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

I know God exits, but I don't know where.

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.

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

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.

I reiterated our hope that negotiations over the United Kingdom's exit from the E.U. will be conducted in a smooth and orderly and transparent fashion and preserve as closely as possible the economic and political and security relationships between the U.K. and E.U.

It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.

It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that's all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for.

My exit is the result of too many entrees.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?” and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.

Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it.

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Of the hundreds of points to enter and exit that are offered to me, I have to choose the one that I feel is the least wrong, the least fake. It is fake, it is a moment that I choose to erupt the story, but I make it as smooth as I can. What enables me to do it is the skill of filmmaking.

So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that.

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

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

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.