Escape Quotes

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

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.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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.

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.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

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

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

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.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

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.