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Quotes About Escape

His jowls full, Scarface allows his prey to escape, satisfied to continue grinding the two-thousand-pound bite of gristle and meat
~ Steve Alten
And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.
~ Steve Burns
When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.
~ Steve Burns
she instead pictured Lady Catherine de Bourgh's bloody, broken body at her feet. It proved a more comforting thought.
~ Steve Hockensmith
Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.
~ Steve Jones
If you are involved with a commitmentphobic, the first thing you have to know is that it is what he is feeling, not what you are doing, that is filling him with terror and confusion; it is what he is thinking, not what you are saying, that is driving a wedge into the relationship. And it is his tortured, convoluted outlook on life, love, and relationships that is making him flee.
~ Steven Carter
Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness.
~ Steven Erikson
Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.
~ Steven Erikson
If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?
~ Steven Erikson
Strange how a land untraveled can look so familiar" Mappo blinked, the memories scattered by the sound of that familiar soft voice. He glanced up at Icarium. "Stranger still how the mind's eye can travel so far and so fast, yet return in an instant" The Jhag smiled. "With that eye you might explore the entire world" "With that eye you might escape it".
~ Steven Erikson
People in the metros are busy making ends meet, but through my films, I like to give the reality of life a skip, and choose concepts which will give audiences a stress-free two-and-a-half hours.
~ Rohit Shetty
I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I ever going to get out of here, and thinking that one could only do it the way newspaper people have always done it. I needed a scoop, and I would go out and I would dream upon coming upon fires or the sky falling in front of me or anything.
~ Michael Wolf
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
~ Emil Cioran
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
~ Zhang Ziyi
Sleeping and being asleep is one of my favorite activities. Really, what I wanted to do is provide a landscape or a musical place where people could fall asleep.
~ Max Richter
If you see someone on a plane with an eye mask, sleeping, that's probably me, because that's pretty much where I live.
~ Ronna McDaniel
From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing. I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed.
~ Jonathan Knight
Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.
~ Lupe Fiasco
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
~ Harrison Ford
The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.
~ Anderson Silva
I like to slip out in the middle of the night and take my Lamborghini and drive it really fast on the highway.
~ Erika Jayne
When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.
~ Robert Krulwich
My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies.
~ Robert Osborne