Escape Quotes

I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.

~ Charles Platt

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.

~ Wole Soyinka

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

~ Mahavira

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

~ Aristotle

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

~ Hannah Arendt

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

~ Stanley Hauerwas

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

~ John Grisham

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

~ Thom Yorke

Music should be your escape.

~ Missy Elliott

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

~ Paul Auster

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

~ Rem Koolhaas

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.

~ Ben Nicholson

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

~ Peter De Vries

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

~ Charles Baudelaire

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

~ Wendell Berry

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

~ Frank Gehry

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.

~ Andy Biersack

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

~ Steven Spielberg

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

~ Bernhard Schlink

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

~ Nadia Comaneci

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

~ Carl Levin

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

~ Simon Van Booy

It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.

~ William Godwin

'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.

~ John Grant

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

~ Ethan Hawke

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

~ Lena Headey

For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.

~ Agnes Bruckner

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

~ Christopher Fry

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

~ Walter Scott

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

~ Bill Bradley

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

~ Anne Sullivan

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

~ Russell Simmons

Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

~ Sam Houston

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

~ Zhang Ziyi

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville