Escape Quotes

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.