Flee Quotes

I don`t particularly like westerns as a genre, but I do love certain westerns. High Noon (1952) means a lot to me - I love the purity and the honesty, I love Gary Cooper in that film, the idea of the last man standing. I do not like John Wayne: I find it hard to watch him. I just never took to him. And I don`t like James Stewart as a cowboy. I love him, but just not as a cowboy; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) is one of my favorite films. I love Frank Capra. I love Preston Sturges. But we`re talking about westerns. ... I have always admired Clint Eastwood`s westerns. The spaghetti westerns were a great discovery. And Pale Rider (1985). As a child, the John Ford film _Cheyenne Autumn_ made a big impression on me. And _Five Easy Pieces_. It`s not really a western, but it is about the possibilities that can be found in the West. Jack Nicholson is sublime in that film, just sublime. It`s the most stultifying portrait of middle-class life. You want to flee from that world and head anywhere less civilized. Which is, of course, the appeal of the West: It`s not tamed yet.

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn`t know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

(Miller and his partner, Sgt. Sam Kennedy, on his first trip to New York, were on the next flight out.) Most of our crooks flee to Louisiana, ... But now they can`t. It`s nice that someone is from someplace fun like New York.

Most of our crooks flee to Louisiana. But now they can`t. It`s nice that someone is from someplace fun like New York.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

It made it seem like I was his accomplice and I was trying to flee or get out of town. I was just part of this crazy situation I didn`t know anything about.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.