Quotes About Escape

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.

I've realized that I really like spending time in the countryside and having a garden.

Spending time with the horses was also a good place to escape to if you were having a bad day, so it was good from a mental point of view.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

Some running backs do different things to get away. My move is to spin.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

Man is the hardest animal to kill. If he gets away he will come back to kill you.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.