#cape

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#21st century #allow #century #european #even

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#escape #find #get #i #into

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#anything #efforts #escape #evil #fruitless

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims. ↗

— Robert Iler

#avenue #being #being there #blocking #escape

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#angles #being #being there #come #i

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

#evening #figure #i #landscapes #looking

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#figures #landscape #little #perfect #relaxing

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#approach #book #characters #completely #diction

I write to escape; to escape poverty. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#i #i write #poverty #write

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ↗

— Ram Dass

#free #possible #think #you