Quotes About Escape

The same theme can be found in Carol Reed's pioneering The Stars Look Down, in which three classic avenue of escape from the working class are posited: crime, football and education.

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

With books he could leave his cell and go wherever the story went.

There are so many ways of escaping from that which one fears, and not the least of these is hatred.

Late one night, as he walked back alone from a Kasuals gig, a truck screeched to a halt beside him and a group of drunken white youths jumped out, screaming racial abuse. Jimmy took off across a cornfield, easily outdistanced his would-be attackers and then, rather like Cary Grant in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, lay doggo on top of Betty-Jean, until they gave up and drove away.

escaped from the theater by running into the adjacent fire station, sliding down the firemen's pole, and escaping in a police car while one of the engines rushed out to create a diversion.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

we must simply develop our spiritual potential in order to escape the chaos of a purely empirical relationship with the universe.

The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pages with invented stories. Sometimes they were intimately about me – family tales, parental exploits – sometimes they became horrific stories sprinkled with torture, death, and reunion: crazy games and tear-soaked sagas.

All I want is to stand in a field and to smell green, to taste air, to feel the earth want me, Without all this concrete hating me.

The woman wore a grey knee-length skirt, what once must have been a nicely pressed white blouse. She carried heels in one hand as she ran in the grass, toward Hoover Drive. A fast zombie in a dark business suit, complete with a thin black tie, was right behind her. He reached for her, swiping passes with bloated blue hands. She serpentined. Left. Right. Doubling back. Good moves. She was like an over-dressed running back. Her shoes the ball.

Set the gearshift to the high gear of your soul You've got to run like an antelope out of control

O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

Reading is almost always subversive. From the time you read the next night's fairy tale under the covers by flashlight when you have already had your bedtime story from Daddy and are supposed to be asleep to the time you are an adult reading junk, hoping no one catches you at it, reading is private; that's the most seductive thing about it. It's you and the book.

Reading" had always been my lifeline-- an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy...

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.

I would like to visit Bora Bora.

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

I'm really loving Billie Eilish's 'idontwannabeyouanymore.' Her dreamy vocals offer such a lovely moment of escape, and there's a sophistication to the lyrics that are so surprising coming from a teen artist.

I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.

I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

I sell escapism.