Escape Quotes
-
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?
-
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
-
We live in a world defined by its boundaries: You cannot travel faster than the speed of light. You must and will die. You cannot escape these boundaries. But the miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.
-
My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
-
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
-
Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
-
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
-
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
-
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
-
We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
-
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
-
I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
-
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
-
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.
-
The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
-
I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
-
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
-
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
-
Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
-
'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
-
You can't escape from what you are.
-
We all have an escape. Mine was theater.
-
Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.
-
I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.
