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Quotes About Exits

When I learned about this, I was told that it was "instinct." ("Instinct" continues to be the explanation of choice whenever animal behavior implies too much intelligence.) Instinct, though, wouldn't go very far in explaining how pigeons use human transportation routes to navigate. Pigeons follow highways and take particular exits, likely following many of the same landmarks as the humans driving below.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.
~ Tim Vine
Your uncle, Poseidon sighed, has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater.
~ Rick Riordan
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrance. And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages
~ William Shakespeare
It was wonderful what a variety of exits from her corner Scrap contrived for Mr. Wilkins.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren't trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.
~ Ally Carter
Now you are thinking like a thief. Fewer guns and more exits. We'll cure your cowboy ways yet. (Vidocq)
~ Richard Kadrey
It felt as if they were confined to the interior of a hotel with no exits, without even any balconies. The oppression of hotel life was growing; they had been inside now for four long months, but it was still less than half their trip.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
We went down the stairs to the café on the ground floor. I had discovered that was the best way to get rid of friends. Once you had a drink all you had to say was: "Well, I've got to get back and get off some cables," and it was done. It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Jed! I got stuck in some air pocket with more exits than... I couldn't think of anything famous with a large number of exits I nearly drowned!
~ Alex Garland
In October, political advertisements bloom on all the signboards and at the interstate exits. If there is a space, there is a sign. They will stay there long after the elections, in fact until storms batter them down. Candidates are supposed to take them down the day after the election, but I have yet to see that happen. Half the candidates are too happy to bother; the others are too depressed.
~ Anne George
My mother used to tell me that Heaven never seals off all exits.
~ Lisa See
It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningful return when most of the wins coming out are perhaps below $100 million exits and the ones above are very few and far between.
~ Dave McClure
Trade sales are the bulk of exits, and there's no shame in that. Sometimes, it's exactly the right thing to do.
~ Caterina Fake
That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.
~ Edna O'Brien
There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.
~ Donald Harington
Death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.
~ John Webster
I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.
~ John Webster
You take something like RingCentral. It doesn't need any more money or financing: it is relatively mature, recurring revenue business - not really worried - but you know, we could sell it tomorrow. We have not been in a rush to sell it. We don't care about exits as much. We care about building fundamental value.
~ Vinod Khosla
You took my Lotus!" Sissy choked on her champagne, and Ronnie started looking for the exits or law enforcement with arrest warrants. Lord, what is the statute of limitations again?
~ Shelly Laurenston
If you look at survivable crashes, it's rare that even half the emergency exits open," says Shanahan. "Plus, there's a lot of panic and confusion." Shanahan cites the example of a Delta crash in Dallas. "It should have been very survivable. There were very few traumatic injuries. But a lot of people were killed by the fire. They found them stacked up at the emergency exits. Couldn't get them open.
~ Mary Roach
But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
~ Sheridan Le Fanu