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Quotes About Escape

Il rimorso non tormenta chi l'ha fatta franca". Oggi so che è vera.
~ Erri De Luca
On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.
~ Erri De Luca
This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.
~ Erri De Luca
Les livres sont la plus grande contradiction des barreaux. Ils ouvrent le plafond de la cellule du prisonnier allongé sur son lit.
~ Erri De Luca
Il rimorso non tormenta chi l'ha fatta franca
~ Erri De Luca
Baltimore always seems like the kind of city you either leaving or just returning to. Ain't no kinda place to hang your hat. Even as a kid I dreamed of getting out.
~ Esi Edugyan
I kept getting up earlier and earlier, hoping to escape before Ione could catch me. That was how I learned that you can't get up earlier than a farmer's wife.
~ Esther M. Friesner
In the green escape of my palace, over a bridge, under a canopy of opalescent light, through there, between dark branches and their shivering leaves, I'm lost in the scent of yellow roses, arrested by the range's filtering light.
~ Etel Adnan
Why do you have to fly to Amsterdam?" he asked. "Is someone in your family ill?" I shook my head. "So what it is, a girl?" I nodded. "But it's not about her," I said. "It's just that I can't be here anymore." The pilot was silent for a moment, then asked, "Have you ever flown in a jump seat?" I managed to control my tears enough to say no.
~ Etgar Keret
To vanquish the emptiness, I have strategems. I listen to music for countless hours. The music fills not only me, but the space around me. Music, as I have learned, is an elixir that seeps into all your limbs.
~ Etgar Keret
It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.
~ Ethan Hawke
I had escaped the snare of certitude that I welcomed so avidly at first and entered, via the name of Jesus, the wide and comprehensive company of Jesus.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.
~ Eugene Ionesco
I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
~ Eva Green
I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.
~ Eva Green
As Maia turned to go, hardly believing that there could be such happiness, she heard a loud splash. Miss Minton was leaning over the side, watching the parcel she had held on her knees floating away downriver. "What was that?" asked Maia. Miss Minton straightened herself. If you must know," she said, "it was my corset.
~ Eva Ibbotson
I did my best to hide by changing my name many times. But I was captured by the Chinese police. But because my Chinese was so good, they thought I was Chinese and released me. That was a miracle.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
I absolutely love jumping on a plane. I find it to be one of the most wonderful, releasing experiences in the world. Nobody can call me and I have my own space where I can do whatever I want. For some people a long-haul flight is an ordeal, but I love every bit of it.
~ John Torode
People don't want drama 365 days a year. I'm a sense of relief; it's my job to take your mind off what's bad for that brief second you're in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I'm doing.
~ Kevin Hart
My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.
~ Cornelia Parker
Like nightclubs and sporting events, entry into an amusement park is a permission to become someone else. We come for the experience and to relish it.
~ Greg Rucka
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub