Escape Quotes

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

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.

I like to escape to hotels.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.