Escapes
Goodwin came into the spotlight when Cheating the Gallows, went wrong live on national television and he was hung. He survived the incident, suffering only minor rope burns. Goodwin has been buried alive, locked inside a box with 200,000 bees, set in concrete, burned at the stake, and sewn up inside a dead cow to name just a few of his feats.
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Famous quotes containing the word escapes:
“There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows—nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry—and it controls the breast.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That reality is ‘independent’ means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.”
—William James (1842–1910)