Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But… — Idi Amin
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape. — Diego Corrales
For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an… — Giles Duley
As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make… — Jacqueline Novogratz
I think people watch TV to escape from life. — Terence Lewis
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we… — James Patterson
For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling… — Anna Netrebko
When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world… — D. B. Weiss
Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking… — John Berger
I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life.… — Sam Taylor-Wood
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall… — Paul Theroux
Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a form of escape,… — Erin O'Connor
If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a… — Bernie Siegel
I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then… — Richie Havens
My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties,… — Tess Gerritsen
I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind. — Drummond Money-Coutts
Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life. — John Varvatos
When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away… — John Ridley
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to. — Rachel Joyce
During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me. — Scott Stossel

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