Escaped Prison Fourteen

Famous quotes containing the words escaped, prison and/or fourteen:

    an escaped note of
    almost unbearable
    satisfaction, a great
    bough or beam
    unaware it had
    spoken.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums ... who find prison so soul-destroying.
    Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

    I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man’s having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)