Quotes About Escape

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

Take my horse to the old town road and ride till I can't no more' basically means just running away, and everything is just gone. The horse is metaphorical for not having anything or just the little things that you do have, and it's with you.

I put music on and I drive around town.

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.

I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

That slave narratives existed at all implied a satisfactory conclusion to the journey - the attainment of literacy, the escape to the place where one could reflect on the experience of bondage and the flight to freedom, and, in the early days of the slave trade, the conversion to Christianity.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

Being home is like a vacation to me, so I'm trying to get my home together.

This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.