Escape Quotes · Page 33

Movies, more than anything I can think of, are a great escape from reality. My reality, in particular, needs escaping.

— Cazzie David

“They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.”

— Erin Bow

All artists are redundant about their own style; they can't escape themselves.

— J. J. Cale

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I'm a loser.

— Trudie Styler

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

— Marcus Aurelius

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I'd walked away from 'Come Dancing' and gave 'Blankety Blank' the elbow when I felt the public had had enough. But I…

— Terry Wogan

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government…

— Larry Niven

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are…

— Lucretius

“The drunkard does indeed find escape, he does indeed find short respite and rest, but he returns from the illusion and finds…

— Hermann Hesse

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons…

— Rickie Lee Jones

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense.…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you…

— Hideo Kojima

I grew up in a small town in the woods of Estonia, and there was not much else around me besides nature.…

— Kerli

“However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the…

— Rachel Ward

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

— Indira Gandhi

If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you will simply need to keep evolving.

— Anonymous

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

— Stanley Hauerwas

“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.”

— Fran Veal

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say…

— Doris Lessing

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

— Peter Doig

Music is my escape; from all the lies, all the drama, all the confusion, all the hurt. Music is my escape from…

— Rihanna A Mohammed

“No one tried to escape. Why was that? Was hope so powerful that it would cause a man to cooperate to the…

— Amy Harmon

Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.

— Vimala McClure

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

— Mason Cooley

“The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things…

— Frank Zappa

“I close my eyes, letting the calm wash over me, and putting my bow against the cello's strings, I play.”

— Samantha Armstrong

“You won’t escape me. In a submarine, even escape sinks.” — Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman’s Adult Story”

— Angelika Regossi

Stop the world I wanna get out I need an escape away from this crowed just to hear from you

— Anonymous

“We could run all over the world, but we wouldn’t be able to escape what was inside us, and eventually it would…

— Jeaniene Frost

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

— Anais Nin

“Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.”

— Adam Haslett

Cause its too late, theres no escape, might as well face it, baby were stuck with eachother

— Anonymous

...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...

— Edith Wharton

“Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.”

— Kim Holden

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of…

— Michel Foucault

“I couldn’t escape the hell I was in; the push pull between hot & cold. Neither was better, just two extremes of…

— Samantha Summers

I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

— Brendan Coyle