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Quotes About Escape

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas
~ Omar Epps
Sometimes you want to run away Sometimes you think you do But you never had a dream like this before And you don't want to ask for more Sometimes you leave a mark Before you know the score
~ Ric Ocasek
Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
~ Thornton Wilder
I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.
~ Bret McKenzie
Stop the world. I want to get off.
~ Anthony Newley
the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
~ Charles Bukowski
I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.
~ Charles Bukowski
Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.
~ Gary Jarman
Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!
~ Anne Fortier
I only want to sleep . . . and never wake.
~ Alan Grant
I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.
~ Janet Fitch
It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
~ Adam Arkin
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.
~ Alan Ball
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
~ Albert Camus
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
~ Alice Hoffman
My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.
~ Amanda Donohoe
You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
~ Ben Harper
At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.
~ Brett Ratner
Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
I've made a couple of movies in the jungle, and I don't want to go back to the jungle.
~ Christopher Walken
I enjoy been on holidays because you can do whatever you want and people can't say anything to you.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.
~ David Quammen
That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.
~ Dean Koontz
When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.
~ Erol Alkan