Quotes About Escape

Airey Neave's escape from Colditz, quite possibly the most remarkable thing a British politician has ever done, defined his years to come. Disregarding senior officers who frowned on such attempts, Neave was undeterred against overwhelming odds and the risk of death.

I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.

Donald Trump's own mother Mary escaped the bone-crushing poverty of Scotland's remote Outer Hebrides for the promise of New York in 1929.

I'm not good at vacationing. I've repeatedly failed at palapas and mai-tais.

Nothing can replace cinema halls.

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

When I was on the ice, I felt like a free man. With flying, it's the same thing. When I'm flying by myself on an afternoon, I feel free.

Id go back to Mauritius in a shot.

I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

That's what I always hoped for when I became an actor - that you would do something that people can escape to, find identification with and excitement in and be able to talk about it in bars, restaurants, and workplaces.

I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.