Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helena Bonham Carter

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

Michael Chabon

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

Scott Bakula

When you get into any kind of period work, or any kind of prosthetic work, or anything that alters what your 8×10 looks like, it's the joy of escaping and becoming somebody else. And it is definitely freeing.

Terry Pratchett

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

Laura Hillenbrand

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.

Mitch Albom

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

Leonard Bernstein

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

John Cusack

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

Gayle Forman

Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

Julie Walters

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

Umberto Eco

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

Ozwald Boateng

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

Peter L. Berger

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

Pema Chodron

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

Neil Postman

There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.

Thomas Wolfe

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Thorstein Veblen

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

Tamsin Egerton

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

Tacitus

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

Steve Buscemi

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Kevin James

Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

Rajneesh

You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else and the other may be more harmful. Don't go on escaping problems, face them. The problem is that you are tense, so the goal should be how to be non-tense, not, smoking or not smoking. Meditate. Relax your tensions without any object into the sky, allow catharsis to happen. When you are non-tense these things will become absurd, foolish, and they will drop. Food will change, your styles of living will change.

Robin Hobb

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.