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Quotes About Escape

He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.
~ Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
At the end of the day, there's probably nothing that makes me feel better than junk food and reality TV.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.
~ Harry Houdini
My Brain is the key that sets me free.
~ Harry Houdini
A pair of skis are the ultimate transformation to freedom
~ Warren Miller
She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
~ John Muir
I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.
~ Josephine Baker
Running away will never make you free.
~ Kenny Loggins
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
~ Eric Hoffer
There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.
~ David Schwimmer
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
~ Richard Stallman
I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.
~ Andrew Dost
Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.
~ Bei Dao
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.
~ George Bernard Shaw
My music is like my freedom space.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
~ James Madison
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird
~ Josephine Hart
No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.
~ Christopher McCandless
I'm going back to my parrot head friends.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
~ John Steinbeck
Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.
~ Stevie Wonder
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.
~ Groucho Marx