Pierre Fresnay quotes

“A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.”
-- Pierre Fresnay

Source : "Fictional character: Le captaine de Boeldieu". "La Grande Illusion", www.imdb.com. 1937.

#Golf Quotes #Escaping Quotes #Tennis Quotes

“It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.”

“He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...”

“No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart”

Source : Song: For Your Entertainment, Album: For Your Entertainment, 2009

“I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die”

“Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.”

“Morning tide makes a great companion when you don’t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.”

Source : Anna Banks (2012). “Of Poseidon”, p.33, Macmillan

“The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.”

Source : 1991 Addressing socialist MPs in Strasbourg, 15 Apr.

“Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.”

“There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.”

“This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.”