Quotes About Escape

Mais les livres représentaient-ils la vie ou ne cherchaient-ils qu'à nous en consoler?

At her back a Madonna, fashioned of jet limewood. The Madonna holds a mammoth baby in swaddling clothes. The Christ Child it says on the sign, his arms stretched out at either side, his hands big with blessing it says on the sign, but to Leah there seems no blessing in it. It looks more like accusation. The baby is cruciform; he is the shape of the thing that will destroy him. He reaches out for Leah. He reaches out to stop any escape, to the right or to the left.

the trail, and returned home as he had left, stealthily, like an Indian.

And if the City falls but a single man escapes. He will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile. He will be the City.

I find acting fun, and don't want to do away with that. I have never been able to see it as a job. It is another world I go to every once in a while.

I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.

Reading is, hands-down, my favorite activity.

I'm addicted to travel.

Fly-fishing is really addictive.

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

I like to buy books at airports sometimes.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

The most calmest place I can be is the studio. And like, I stay in there 'cause I know, when I come out, it's back to reality. Man, if you're angry all day, man, stay in the studio.

Rien ne grise comme le vin du malheur.

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

And it was in sheer self-defence that they obeyed - as if by dancing they somehow or other escaped from that tune, which seemed to be themselves.

People who think that they have no chance and use that as an escape route... have no hope in life.

I read to escape...I write to help others escape... --Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files

I realize I've sometimes raced over the years like an ice skater fleeing the devil on a frozen river.

For the next several miles our trail winds through dramatically lush growth, so vigorous that the trail is completely covered... And, as you physically penetrate this living wall it occurs to you just how far civilization is being left behind.

Ozour pourtant est las du voyage. On part découragé, en lâche ou en héros, dans l'illusion d'une autre vie, mais il n'y a pas d'issue. L'exil est une prison.

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

Paras nukkua... Paeta tätä järjetöntä ja rikoksentäyteistä elämää joka nieli nuoruuteni...

Ma tu vivi continuamente nelle favole, solamente non te ne accorgi più. Quando un adulto entra nel mondo delle fiabe non riesce più ad uscirne. Non lo sapevi?