Quotes About Escape

Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that sits screaming in every living room in the land.

That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn above timberline are even more wondrous.

A writer's refuge is imagination. Therein lies the ability to create a new world and bring order to chaos.

A reader is a voyager, an armchair adventurer, travelling to different times, places, inhabiting different minds and worlds. What fun.

When I read, I visit other worlds. When I write, I create other worlds.

A writer's refuge is imagination and the possibilities it provides.

Reading is a great way to travel anywhere in the world without making reservations. It's a trip to wherever you wish to go.

She closed her eyes, tried to go far away to that mythical green valley in her mind, tried to see it with rainbows in a clearing sky after a summer rain.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

Welcome to my garage. This is where I go to get away from the Honey-Do list.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

It may sound funny, but I got a thrill when I was pulled into a crowd once. It was like 'How am I going to get out of this?!

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!

What did you do before?" "I used to run a lot.""Cross country? Track?""From the cops, actually.