Quotes About Escape

I went off with him for no reason.

i've no time To dally hassel In your heart's house, It's too gray I'm too cold- I wanta go to Golden, That's my home.

Most of them were running away from something?usually the law.

There's nothing wrong with you Ray, your only trouble is you never learned to get out to spots like this, you've let the world drown you in its horseshit and you've been vexed... though as I say comparisons _are_ odious, but what we're saying now is true.

but I run away from the seashore and never came back again without that secret knowledge; that it didnt want me there, that I was a fool to sit there in the first place, the sea has its waves, the man has his fireside, period.

It's all a sea, I swim out of its in the afternoons.

Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955 I got on a gondola and lay down with my duffel bag under my head and my knees crossed and contemplated the clouds as we rolled north to Santa Barbara.

Behind us lay the whole of America and everything Dean and I had previously known about life, and life on the road. We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic.

strange Arabian figure that was pursuing me across the desert;

I was not made for the desk and counting-house, for petty business squabbling, and legal jangling.

He could not endure a prolonged contact with another body.  It smacked of danger.  It made him frantic.  He must be away, free, on his own legs, touching no living thing. 

These limitations and restraints were laws. To be obedient to them was to escape hurt and make for happiness.

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.

I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.

Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.

My father worked in a toy store. He used to give toys to the head of police when he would shop for his kids. One day the police head came in and told my father, 'You're on the list. Within two weeks, we're going to come and arrest you.' So within two weeks we got the heck out of there.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.

For an artist or an entertainer, it's the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you're done your work and escape.