Fugitive Quotes

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.
Will Smith

Work, Character, Energy

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

Life, Happiness, Human

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

Advantage, Rare, Slave

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

Away, Ourselves, Passionate

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
Joan Rivers

Beauty, Found, Ideal

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.
Charles Baudelaire

Art, Half, Changing

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

Art, Half, Eternal

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

Law, Working, Once

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
Bill Mauldin

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

Thought, Making, Bomb

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

Side, Animal, Chased

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.
Jay Alan Sekulow

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.'
Leslie Moonves

Thought, Before, Start

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

Against, Guns, Unless

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested.
Howie Carr

Saying, Find, Put

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.
Edward Blake

Great, Personal, While

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