Escaping famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...
-- Abraham Verghese -
No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart
-- Adam Lambert -
I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die
-- Adrian Grenier -
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder
-- Adrienne Rich -
When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
-- Adyashanti -
Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
-- Alan Rickman -
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
-- Albert Camus -
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.
-- Alfred Sheinwold -
There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
Morning tide makes a great companion when you don’t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.
-- Anna Banks -
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 end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
-- Anton Chekhov -
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 not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.
-- Ayn Rand -
You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.
-- Bella Pollen -
When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.
-- Billy Campbell -
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
-- Billy Corgan -
The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.
-- Boris Yeltsin -
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.
-- Channing Tatum -
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.
-- Charles Lyell -
If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.
-- Charles Mingus -
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
-- Charlie Hunnam -
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies
-- Chris Kattan -
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
-- Chris Van Hollen -
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
-- Clark Moustakas -
But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.
-- Claudia Gray -
If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.
-- Clive Anderson -
She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.
-- Connie Brockway -
You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life
-- Dainin Katagiri -
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
-- Daniel Barenboim -
Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it
-- Danielle Trussoni -
To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results.
-- Dave Hunt -
I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. It’s not to do with vocabulary or meanings, because I know quite a lot of words, but when I come out with them they get confused and scattered. That’s why I avoid stories and speeches and just stick to answering the questions I’m asked. All the extra words, the overflow, I keep to myself, the words that I silently multiply to get close to the truth.
-- Delphine de Vigan -
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 to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.
-- Douglas Rushkoff -
All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
-- E. B. White -
A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.
-- E. B. White -
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
-- Edith Piaf -
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.
-- Edward Gibbon -
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
-- Elizabeth Aston -
The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
-- Fábio Moon -
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.
-- G. H. Hardy -
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.
-- George Eliot -
When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
-- George Eliot -
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.
-- Greil Marcus -
I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.
-- Hooman Majd -
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
-- Hugh MacDiarmid -
If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're escaping the capitalism and degradation of economic imperialism. We don't call them political refugees; we call them unfortunate people.
-- Ian Svenonius -
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
-- Isaac Asimov -
There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?
-- Isaac Asimov -
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett -
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!†he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Jesus makes you happy in reality. The world makes you happy escaping from reality.
-- Jack Hyles -
The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.
-- Jillian Michaels -
Nothing which consists of corporeal matter is absolutely light, but that is comparatively lighter which is rarer, either by its own nature, or by accidental heat. And it is not to be thought that light bodies are escaping to the surface of the universe while they are carried upwards, or that they are not attracted by the earth. They are attracted, but in a less degree, and so are driven outwards by the heavy bodies; which being done, they stop, and are kept by the earth in their own place.
-- Johannes Kepler -
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.
-- John Constable -
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.
-- John Constable -
All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.
-- John Cusack -
There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness.
-- John Longenecker -
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
-- Jon Crosby -
I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.
-- Joshua Mohr -
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!
-- Juana Inés de la Cruz -
The mighty hunter," I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. "He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.""One scary old lady," he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. "You didn't hear what she told me when I got up - you're so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that's not the creepiest thing you've ever heard." His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. "Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie.
-- Julie Kagawa -
That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.
-- Julie Walters -
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
-- Kathleen Battle -
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby .
-- Larry Wall -
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
-- Lasse Hallstrom -
While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life
-- Laura Hillenbrand -
Usually I'm on top to keep the guy from escaping.
-- Lisa Lampanelli -
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.
-- Marina Abramovic -
You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.
-- Markus Zusak -
If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.
-- Marvin Gaye -
(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")
-- Maurice Maeterlinck -
She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t die
-- Michael Grant -
Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
-- Michael Chabon -
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich.
-- Michael Novak -
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.
-- Monica Ali -
In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.
-- Muhammad al-Baqir -
There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.
-- Neil Postman -
When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong
-- NoViolet Bulawayo -
No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
-- Oriana Fallaci -
If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
-- Ozwald Boateng -
A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state
-- Peter L. Berger -
A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.
-- Pierre Fresnay -
The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.
-- Rachel Joyce -
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
-- Ransom Riggs -
Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
-- S. N. Goenka -
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, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.
-- Samuel Beckett -
That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.
-- Stefano Benni -
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
-- Steve Buscemi -
Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one’s business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don’t see them that way. Yet.
-- Tammara Webber -
When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
-- Tamsin Egerton -
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.
-- Thorstein Veblen -
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
-- Umberto Eco -
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
-- Viola Davis
