Quotes About Escape

I feel lucky. I grew up in an open-minded, multi-cultural community in West Vancouver in Canada. There were people who had escaped some kind of oppression. Some of them were first-generation immigrants, others were one or two generations back.

Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

I want to have an 'Eat, Pray, Love' experience where I drop off the face of the planet and move to Greece.

Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.

We've all sort of been there: It's coming on Christmas, all that preparation is going on, and you just want to escape. You don't want to buy into it. It's a time of year that brings up a lot of memories for people, and if you're missing somebody, it's hardest at this time of year.

After 9/11, Hekmatyar helped Osama bin Laden escape from the mountains of Tora Bora into Pakistan, and then decamped to Iran, until his presence there became a bit too inconvenient.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.

It's definitely a reason I game so much: to forget about the pressures of fighting and the hardships of training and everything.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.

I think there are some people who have those childhoods that are really bad and so what happens is that they find an escape through pretending to be other people.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

Yes, I understand that football and sports in America have been a way for us to get away from some of our most daunting moments. It's a way for us to bring the country together.

There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn't to take someone down to the ground - the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That's what the goal is.

To me, 'Alors On Danse' is the definition of clubbing. Because everyone is just trying to forget their problems, but actually, it's so sad, clubbing. We try to sell happiness in clubs, but you can't.