Escaping Quotes

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

You can run but you can't hide

There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity

She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t die

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

As far as escaping and making plays, I have a lot of faith in our line.

The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.

The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up but she's still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead

Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we speak. It's a race between new tech and biosphere bankruptcy, I'd say.

You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.

I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.