Quotes About Escape

This is it! Stay low, don't bunch up, and run like hell!

Archie was getting seriously tired of being underground all the time.

needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened.

there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

In a busy city it is easy to forget that somewhere out there are fields and rivers and peace.

Alastair Humphreys

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home. I'm not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to England as a means of escape, and it was a failure.

Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. 'Peter Pan' is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place to be.

Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me.

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.

My idea of heaven is being in Arizona, stuck up a mountain - somewhere where there are no phones.

The thing I love most about going to the Rocky Mountain National Park is that mobile phones don't work, and there's no electricity and no TV.

For many years, I used to run to the opposite direction when I saw photographers.

I really wanted to escape from that little girl. But it seems to me that the picture didn't let me go.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom.

I don't care how many times I play 'Angry Birds.' When you have the world's cares on your shoulders and you fling those little birds at those rotten pigs, then the whole world just melts away.

For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.

Movies are my pill. I can talk non-stop about them.

Music is entertainment, and we need that in order not to fall into the pit of despair.

My idea of fun is to sit looking at a blank wall in a cottage, making up stories in utter silence. The thought of going back to work in an office is horrendous.

People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.