Quotes About Escape

And so now, under a Colorado sky so blue it hurt my eyes, we arrived at the terrible truth. You can plot your escape, you can ditch your life and your family, and you can race down a two-lane highway in a stolen car. But there are things you can never out run

after we cleared the tunnel at Treasure Island, a panicky

all tunnels and bridges out of Manhattan

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

BRAINSTORMING! Every night after dinner—which is usually something like tuna noodle casserole made with cream-of-wallpaper soup—I escape to the privacy of my bedroom.

He ran like a scalded cat.

And the driver?" Claire asked. "Drunk, and texting while driving. He just walked away.

Doors slammed. Tires smoked. A pistol came out the

The Black Velvet Band

Maybe I was being stubborn and stupid and making the wrong decisions. It wouldn't be the first time, and god knows it surely won't be the last. Because I was going to bust out of this joint if it was the last thing I did. One simply had to figure out how.

Bavar takes off?

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.

I think that there must be a point of self-immersion in a story that is a point of no return. You get far enough in that the story has really touched you to the core and deeply troubled you and made you unhappy and fearful, and then how do you get out of that? I'm a writer, so my way of getting out of that is to write.

For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

There's something really special, and addictive, about making that connection with an audience - knowing that they may never have seen you before, and may never see you again, but that for those moments you've been able to unite them all in laughter, and provide the escape that lies in that involuntary response.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian Revolution when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, and my family - me, my brother, and my parents - escaped over the border to Austria. We just took whatever we could carry. It was perilous, but we made it across.

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.