During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy… — Willard Wigan Copy Share Image
My name is Kim Phuc, though you likely know me by another name. It is one I never asked for, a name… — Phan Thi Kim Phuc Copy Share Image
Hallmark Channel treats their actors and actresses with utmost respect. Their scripts remind of me of why entertainment exists in the first… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
“The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
It's really important to have your escape away from cricket, whatever that is for the individual. I enjoy my time away from… — Jos Buttler Copy Share Image
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
DSU' and the ones prior, the music was concretely my escape from everything else, and on 'Beach Music' onwards, it's still an… — Alex G Copy Share Image
We had a 15-passenger Ford Econoline. Being in a van touring for 15 years like that, there's no escape. You're in there… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way.… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
“If you drive down there," I said, "he'll just escape the other way. That's what he's counting on. You have to walk… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape… — Shakira Copy Share Image
I love to garden and cook whenever I get the chance and escape anywhere that's peaceful and quiet. My philosophy on living… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
A sensitive person is seldom happy with the world the way it is. And since you cannot change it, you think, 'Might… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
My dad put me in a theater group camp at Santa Monica Playhouse when I was, like, six, and then I started… — Diana Silvers Copy Share Image
If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to say, for a while, it was very difficult to listen to anything that Michael's voice was on. That's pretty… — Rebbie Jackson Copy Share Image
“We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and houses… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of… — Diana Silvers Copy Share Image
I think 75% of sports fans just want sports. They want to sit down on their couch... pop open a beer, and… — Clay Travis Copy Share Image
“Instinct told Neil what to do. Training taught him how to do it. Calculated motion. Full awareness of the unman and his… — Steve Rush Copy Share Image
“Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
“Yo pensaba que también podía ser heroico escaparse por gusto, sin más, por amor a la libertad y a la alegría—no a… — Carmen Martin Gaite Copy Share Image
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to… — Idi Amin Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like… — Amanda Beard Copy Share Image
“Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
And all those boys that played me eat your muthafuckin heart out, its me Always gone but never hard to find And… — Justice Garcia Copy Share Image
It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I've always loved the seaside and I used to be a fairly keen surfer, but it's a solitary activity so when my… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
