Quotes About Escape

Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?

I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

Honour follows those who flee it.

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.

There's nothing better than sitting in a hot tub.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Golf in Indonesia has something else to offer: ways to make you forget the last four hours and take away the aches. Nearly every course has a spa - hot tub, cold tub, sauna and massage.

I have a lovely bath tub that feels like my sanctuary. I fill it up with a lavender bubble bath, read a magazine and just chill out.