“I’ve finally come to understand that life itself is the Fun House. All you want is that door marked EXIT, the escape… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was… — John Prine Copy Share Image
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
People are going to a place like Pugwash and that whole area to escape from industry, to have the serenity of the… — Anne Murray Copy Share Image
“Is there no escape then?' said Frodo, looking around wildly. 'If I move I shall be seen and hunted! If I stay,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
That's a very Japanese idea - that children are an extension of their parents. And that when you're reborn, your new form… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
My objective with Blueprint is to demonstrate aging escape velocity, using the best science, trying to do all the appropriate interventions to… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt… — Kate Micucci Copy Share Image
'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's… — Kris Holden-Ried Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I don't believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
When the Emergency was proclaimed at midnight on 25 June 1975, they came to arrest me. I managed to escape by going… — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum,… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
“White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him?… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Games helped me a lot when The Rev died. It was something I able to go do and stay in the house… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“despite his single-minded determination, he forced himself to give her one last opportunity to escape what he could no longer control himself.” — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually… — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
I think one of the major themes in 'Escape Fire,' really, if you break it down, is that huge institutions, the military,… — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image
I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for… — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
“And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books." "Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta!… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
“I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“...tragedy and death would follow a person whereever he went in life. There was no such thing as escape, except maybe the… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“Those without a roof over their heads could escape with Wolfe, Kafka, or Robert Louis Stevenson and have shelter from the heat… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence,… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word… — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
We need musicians! We need them healthy - we need to dance and we need to escape - and none of that… — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
No one can escape politics. We are all in it. Even if we shy away from it, I just decide to embrace… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
