Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters. — Susannah York
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of… — Frederick Soddy
Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the… — Anna Kavan
My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent. — Jack Abbott
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most… — G. H. Hardy
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced.... Toxic… — Ernst T. Krebs
You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these… — Harry Connick, Jr.
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite… — Wallace Shawn
In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate… — Ursula K. Le Guin
There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone would… — Philip Pullman
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do… — Swami Vivekananda
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice… — Henri Lebesgue
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is… — George Polya
As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell… — Adam Carolla
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. — Confucius
And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that… — Mark Lawrence
Dancing allows me to go away and not have to think of what I’m doing next. That is the opportunity for me to really escape.… — Selena
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence. — Louise Bourgeois
I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows… — Louise Bourgeois
But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear… — Margaret Atwood
The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to… — Karl Marx
Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner. — Thom Yorke
I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book. — Jean Craighead George
I accept the proposition that... to judge is an exercise of power and because ... there is no objective stance but only a series of… — Sonia Sotomayor
Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it. — Julius Nyerere

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