Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted. — Nadia Murad Copy Share Image
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I wanted to escape the drudgery of a small town existence. Any place bigger than Gwalior was fine. I took the first… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
“You can not escape me!" he roared. "Lead me into a trap and I'll pile the heads of your kinsmen at your… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
“I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this… — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
Spending time with the horses was also a good place to escape to if you were having a bad day, so it… — Millie Bright Copy Share Image
If you come from the Internet, as I do - I think of it as sort of my native country - there's… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
“It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
You can escape from liability, but you cannot escape from regret. You can escape from school, but you cannot escape from knowledge.… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“We’re lost in each other, in the heart of Toronto, slow dancing to nothing but the beat of my heart and the… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
Words do cut, and they do hurt. It was one thing growing up where you were bullied, but you'd just come home.… — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm playing roles that I can escape that.… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey,… — Jonathan Banks Copy Share Image
“What he really wanted was to tear a hole in his world and escape.” — Vladimir Nabokov Signs and Copy Share Image
