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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. -- Edith Piaf
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. -- James Joyce
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. -- Charles Baudelaire
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. -- Joseph Addison
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. -- Daniel Barenboim
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. -- Andrew Neel
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. -- David Lloyd
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Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity. -- Paul Auster
That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world. -- Julie Walters
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education. -- Hugh MacDiarmid
War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. -- Philip Caputo
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits. -- Greil Marcus
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them. -- Lasse Hallstrom
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. -- Chris Van Hollen
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. -- Steve Buscemi
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. -- Charlie Hunnam
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state. -- Peter L. Berger
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state -- Peter L. Berger
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. -- Thomas Wolfe
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. -- David Lloyd
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. -- Viola Davis
A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike. -- Steve Truglia
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. -- James Harvey Robinson
I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty. -- Jonas Gahr Store
I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die -- Adrian Grenier
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. -- John Maynard Keynes
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. -- Jon Crosby
I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege. -- Ben Barnes
Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird. -- Barry Ritholtz
I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great. -- Alison Goldfrapp
The worst situation with radiation escaping is if you are downwind from it. You could virtually be on one side and not affected by the radiation. If you're on the other side and you're downwind from it, you are going to be affected. -- Rudy Giuliani
Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. -- Athanasius
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls. -- Michael Leunig
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. -- Russell Baker
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!! -- Bruce Lee
While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life. -- Laura Hillenbrand
When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles, rowing across lochs, or escaping over moors of purple heather. Even those Scots were hard to find. For at school, we recited poetry according to the set texts the teachers taught us. -- Theresa Breslin
And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept. -- Samuel Beckett
(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality") -- Maurice Maeterlinck
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate. -- Joan Didion
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. -- Ayn Rand
Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping -- Eminem
My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix... -- Lauryn Hill
Nobody actually ever does thisâ??escaping through a window. -- Kevin James
Usually I'm on top to keep the guy from escaping. -- Lisa Lampanelli
Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom. -- Frank Bidart
The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings. -- Rachel Joyce
Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping. -- S. N. Goenka
In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class. -- Hank Azaria
No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart -- Adam Lambert
If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself. -- Marvin Gaye
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence -- Billy Corgan
War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. -- Philip Caputo
This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him. -- S.A. Tawks
We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36) -- Pema Chodron
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You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive. -- Bella Pollen
Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me. -- Channing Tatum
That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. -- Stefano Benni
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies -- Chris Kattan
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies. -- Chris Kattan
Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor. -- Hideo Kojima
If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music. -- Charles Mingus
Jesus makes you happy in reality. The world makes you happy escaping from reality. -- Jack Hyles
All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There's no escaping the inevitable. -- John Cusack
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him. -- Clark Moustakas
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it. -- Leonard Bernstein
We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality. -- Wangari Maathai
sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me . -- Maggie Stiefvater
All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open. -- E. B. White
Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to. -- Michael Chabon
I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30) -- Milan Kundera
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. -- George Eliot
As far as escaping and making plays, I have a lot of faith in our line. -- Josh Freeman
When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television. -- Billy Campbell
The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness. -- Ayn Rand
When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds. -- George Eliot
When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there. -- Tamsin Egerton
There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky. -- NoViolet Bulawayo
A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping. -- Pierre Fresnay
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict. -- Mitch Albom
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one. -- Elizabeth Aston
Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it's cage; it will be hard to capture it again! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart. -- Muna Adnan Naqi
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear. -- Calvin Coolidge
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder -- Adrienne Rich
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate. -- Alan Dershowitz
Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world. -- N. T. Wright
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded. -- Jose Bergamin
The real test of a bridge player isnâ??t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once heâ??s in. -- Alfred Sheinwold
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! -- Bram Stoker
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me! -- Juana Inés de la Cruz
The door to her heart was locked up tight, but he could still see a faint glow escaping through the keyhole. -- John Mark Green
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me! -- Juana Inés de la Cruz
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity -- Forest Ray Moulton
Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident. -- Edmond H. Fischer
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. -- Ozwald Boateng
escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. -- Terry Pratchett
A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open. -- E. B. White
If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it! -- John G. Lake
There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough. -- Andrew Sullivan
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord. -- Edward Gibbon
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it? -- Richelle Mead
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. -- Dane Cook
The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress. -- Judith Lynne Hanna
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
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 -- Maggie Stiefvater
The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind. -- FÃ¡bio Moon

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