Quotes About Escape

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

When I need to decompress, I grab a glass of wine, some popcorn, and a great book.

I like flying to New York from London. It's like a day off for me. No phone or e-mails. Food, wine, iPod, movies, snoozing.

If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in 'The Sun Also Rises' when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.

That's what I tend to do - get into a band, and then it gets busy... and you want to get away from it all again. That's what happened with the Moodies and Wings.

My mother was this White woman from Texas, from a racist town raised to believe in the inferiority of others by her community, not necessarily by her parents, but certainly by the community around her. And she fled it.

When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.

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.

I've always wanted to go to Phuket in Thailand.

I love the Shore at Katathani in Thailand! They have the best pool.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans; they had not come to love the unending monotony of mesquite barrens or the high, hot blue sky that made sunsets a matter of prayerful thankfulness.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

Everyone thinks if they have a problem, the first thing they want to do is play football and enjoy themselves.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

I've been hiding from the real world all my life.

It's very powerful to shut down your computer and escape into the real world.

I looked at basketball as something that I love and escape from the real world, and in order to continue to escape the real world, you got to work hard at it.