Top 297 Escaping Quotes & Sayings

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

I'm not one that really soaks up the limelight. I'm OK with kind of escaping it.

Usually I'm on top to keep the guy from escaping.

If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.

I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)

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

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.

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

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.

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.

Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

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

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

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.

If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're escaping the capitalism and degradation of economic imperialism. We don't call them political refugees; we call them unfortunate people.

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

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

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

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

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

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

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can't stop writing his name on underpasses where he's running from the law. And there's this whole beautiful paragraph about how to run is to write. And, you know, it's obviously about the writer's life.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

As far as escaping and making plays, I have a lot of faith in our line.

The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.

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

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.