Escaping Quotes - page 4

John Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct...What struck me... was the related idea that human thought is a reaction to frustrated habit- what people often do when the outcome of their action disappoints their expectation. I concluded that unthinking, habitual action is the natural and truly happy way of life; whereas thought is a symptom of dysfunction but conducive to survival all the same since, every so often, new thoughts find ways of escaping the frustration that provoked them by inventing satisfying new ways to get things done. (William H. McNeill)
Absyrtus in hot haste with his father's swift-assembled fleet draws nigh, and shakes a threatening torch at the escaping Greeks. View quote
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great. View quote
Alison Goldfrapp
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life. View quote
Andrea Corr
I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die. View quote
Adrian Grenier
When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television. View quote
Billy Campbell
If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support. View quote
Clive Anderson
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one. View quote
Elizabeth Aston
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. View quote
Jon Crosby
That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world. View quote
Julie Walters
War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. (Philip Caputo)
When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there. View quote
Tamsin Egerton
Music is, or was, a language of the emotions. If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music. View quote
Charles Mingus
I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species. View quote
Umberto Eco
With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner... widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in... at first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle to flicker. Presently, details of the room emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues and gold – everywhere the glint of gold. View quote
Howard Carter
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. View quote
David Lloyd George
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful. View quote
John Constable
Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him. View quote
Bruce Lee
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ...Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now... (Henry Miller)
The worst situation with radiation escaping is if you are downwind from it. You could virtually be on one side and not affected by the radiation. If you're on the other side and you're downwind from it, you are going to be affected. View quote
Rudy Giuliani
. A tertiary negative injunction prohibiting the victim from escaping from the field. View quote
Gregory Bateson
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits. View quote
Greil Marcus
Our comrades escaping from the starvation of prison, fleeing to our lines by the light of the North star, never feared to enter the black man's cabin and ask for bread. View quote
James A. Garfield