Quotes About Escape

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

I am a massive fan of tele. When I have an evening off I just crash in front of the sofa and binge. I love it.

I have this one room - it has a TV, a sofa, some candles. I close the door, sit down and lose myself.

You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.

I thought, if I go to China, I might find food to eat. The only reason to escape was to find a bowl of rice. And I was trafficked and sold in China.

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

The sole purpose of the bedroom is to melt away any stressors.

Large solid rockets have never been a very good way to build launchers that might have crews on top, especially because of the problems in getting the crew away from a failing launcher.

My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.

I wouldn't know the political solution to ending the conflict in those countries that refugees escape from. The only thing I know for sure, however, is that we need to help these people.

When I dance, I go to a different side of who I am. I feel like I can solve a problem without knowing I'm solving one.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

I know that some people use lavender, incense, and cake as sedatives, but for me, a 'nose bath' in an old book just does something.

I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

For me, a holiday is doing something else apart from what I normally do.

An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape.

I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

Let's run away.""To where?" "Alaska." "What's in Alaska?" "No clue, " I whispered. "Find out with me.

Mommy. Do you ever wish a book will never end?

...I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...