Escape Quotes - page 9

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape. (Roger Moore)
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. View quote
Simon Van Booy
Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head? View quote
Simon Pegg
I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role. View quote
Sandra Brown
Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great. View quote
Philip K. Dick
The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition. View quote
Charles Cooley
As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere. (Bernhard Schlink)
I don't deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty. View quote
Walter Bonatti
Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it. View quote
David Levithan
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience. View quote
Alex Berenson
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape. View quote
Dennis Rodman
We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. "You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these 'droids to say? "Talk about lame,” Fang muttered. View quote
James Patterson
The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time. View quote
Joshua Ferris
Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off. View quote
Don Tapscott
Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while. View quote
Amy Harmon
You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought. View quote
Enid Blyton
I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer. (Candace Bushnell)
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. View quote
Karin Slaughter
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world. View quote
Alice Hoffman
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Saying you want to escape is the easy part; actually figuring out how to do it is not quite so simple. View quote
Kerry Wilkinson