Quotes About Escape

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

I started to hallucinate and hear voices as clear as crystal. I heard my family in a casual familial conversation I heard Koran readings in a heavenly voice. I heard music from my country. Later on the guards used these hallucinations and started talking with funny voices through the plumbing, encouraging me to hurt the guard and plot an escape.

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

If there is an impact on climate change due to natural causes, we need to understand that, and cannot escape responsibility to deal with what we are doing now.

I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.

I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

I grew up raiding my brother's comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

I don't like being restricted. When I climb, I feel free and unrestricted; away from any social commitments.

I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.

We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything.

I don't like concrete jungles.

It's really fun to just get on a bike and just go and, I guess in a way, to be able to leave the tour and not be confined and all that kind of stuff.

I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.

I grew up in Connecticut - it was really charming, but when I was younger, all I wanted was to get out.

I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

When I'm not working, I go for runs. I live around many parks, so it's nice to feel like you're not surrounded by the city.

When I first started writing in the beginning, it was very much surrounding the idea of escape and of fantasy, then when I got a little bit older it very much became a way of looking inward.

As a child, I got bored with my surroundings, so I would be another person for a little while.

People are going to a place like Pugwash and that whole area to escape from industry, to have the serenity of the surroundings and the beauty.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.