Escape Quotes

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

On that Sunday of the Masters I remember turning on ESPN to find people talking about me. I switched over to the Golf Channel and people were talking about me. It was hard to escape.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

I don't think I can ever escape from music.

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

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

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.