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Quotes About Escape

out of the trap. They ran on to the platform just as the train pulled up. Not many people got out. A woman clambered out with a basket.
~ Enid Blyton
Orion sniffed. Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby. This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.
~ Eoin Colfer
Orion sniffed. Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your back. Then I can make a few pennies with my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passerby. This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.
~ Eoin Colfer
When Holly Short had opened the door of her makeshift basement cell, she had found her helmet bouncing on the spot in front of her with a 3-D image of Foaly's face projected onto it. "That is really creepy
~ Eoin Colfer
The Brill brothers fled to the cockpit, trying to simultaneously bow, look at their feet, not think anything dangerous, and above all, not pass wind.
~ Eoin Colfer
Arthur scowled. "The green death-ray colors? Yes, I can see those. I would prefer to see them from a great distance, so can we please get out of here?
~ Eoin Colfer
Ja, ik zou maar snel wegvliegen, Tweety! - Holly
~ Eoin Colfer
Sirens. We need to get out of this area, Artemis, before I'm forced to cause an international incident.
~ Eoin Colfer
Tim: I shot my TV.
~ Eric Bogosian
The "underground railroad" should be understood not as a single entity but as an umbrella term for local groups that employed numerous methods to assist fugitives, some public and entirely legal, some flagrant violations of the law.
~ Eric Foner
We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.
~ Eric Hoffer
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
~ Eric Hoffer
The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending—for making a show—and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing mass spectacle. Deprecation
~ Eric Hoffer
We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom.
~ Eric Hoffer
The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.
~ Eric Hoffer
We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
~ Eric Hoffer
I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
~ Erica Jong
I quickly learned that a book carefully arranged before your face was a bulletproof shield, an asbestos wall, a cloak of invisibility. I learned to take refuge behind books, to become, as my mother and father called me, 'the absentminded professor-' They screamed at me, but I couldn't hear. I was reading. I was writing. I was safe.
~ Erica Jong
You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism.
~ Erica Jong
If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves!
~ Erica Jong
În fiecare zi furam sticle de alcool, le îngropam pe cele goale È™i aveam nevoie de cantit??i din ce în ce mai mari ca s?-mi alung gândurile.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security.
~ Erich Fromm
We have been compelled to recognize that millions in Germany were as eager to surrender their freedom as their fathers were to fight for it; that instead of wanting freedom, they sought for ways of escape from it; that other millions were indifferent and did not believe the defense of freedom to be worth fighting and dying for.
~ Erich Fromm
Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance—or in insanity.
~ Erich Fromm