I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew…

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Writing is the self escaping into the open." E.B. White”

— Solveig Eggerz

Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will…

— Thomas a Kempis

The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.

— Alfred Sheinwold

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

— Greil Marcus

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have…

— John Glover

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?”

— Ali Smith

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides.…

— Daniel Barenboim

“The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

— Lasse Hallstrom

She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before,…

— Connie Brockway

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

— Anonymous