Escape Quotes

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

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.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.