Escaping Quotes

191 quotes by 175 authors

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits. — Greil Marcus
That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world. — Julie Walters
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability… — Douglas Rushkoff
A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open. — Elwyn Brooks White
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me! — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing,… — Samuel Beckett
Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. Thereâ€™s only one way of… — George Bernard Shaw
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the… — Anton Chekhov
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's… — Margaret Atwood
We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36) — Pema Chodron
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does… — Ayn Rand
Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I donâ€™t mean escaping into dreams or the… — Italo Calvino
But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the â€˜destinyâ€™ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to… — Claudia Gray
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash… — Bruce Lee
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! — Bram Stoker
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!â€ he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say â€˜out of the frying-pan into the fireâ€™… — J.R.R. Tolkien
That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. — Stefano Benni
When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator:… — Julian Barnes
I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30) — Milan Kundera

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