There are millions of people living Thoreau’s life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn’t put a crew escape system in it.
I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I’ve never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.
Because we can’t escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.
Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.
When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.
Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
The character I’ve created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don’t take too much space. All those things that didn’t mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.
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.
As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about… this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person’s persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.
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.
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.
When I dance, I escape the present and become one with my soul.
North Koreans are forced to work at state jobs in a moribund economy. Countless parents watch their children go to bed hungry. Many North Korean families feel they have no option but to try to escape.
It’s easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you’re making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.
For me, horror movies are a real escape.
I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
I don’t bowl to escape with cheap economy.
To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.
Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run… but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
With Escape the Fate, I was pushing for synths and keyboards and stuff, and everybody was in disagreement with that. They didn’t want to do that.
I like to escape to the beach and kind of ground myself whenever I can.
Australians do love a good food festival. From regional gems like The Taste of Tasmania to Margaret River Gourmet Escape, diehard eaters have a litany of opportunities to revel in Australia’s great produce and chow down on food made by some of the brightest culinary talent from here and abroad.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
People are going to a place like Pugwash and that whole area to escape from industry, to have the serenity of the surroundings and the beauty.
Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home. I’m not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to England as a means of escape, and it was a failure.
Famous for his ‘Maverick’ Western series in the 1950s and ‘The Rockford Files’ in the ’70s, and in movies like ‘The Great Escape’ and ‘Grand Prix’ in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.
I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
Squid don’t eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It’s caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
If there is an impact on climate change due to natural causes, we need to understand that, and cannot escape responsibility to deal with what we are doing now.
One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.
I’m really bad, I watch reality TV sometimes – I just think it’s the best form of escape.
Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.
In my reporting, I’ve found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.
He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
We appreciate quiet living. It’s not exactly a Hollywood way of life – I couldn’t stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.
There’s a side to me that likes to make clothes for everyday. But I also think of fashion as an escape. It’s like a dream. Even in an economy that isn’t strong and where it’s important to sell clothes, you have to make things that let people dream a little.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
It’s the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I’m a daydreamer; I don’t feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
I don’t think X-23’s past is the most interesting thing about her, but it’s not like she can escape it, either.
Everyone uses art for different reasons: We use it as entertainment. We use it as an escape. We use it as comfort. Everyone uses it for different reasons.
You can’t escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can’t actually opt out of the culture that you’re in.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I’m a loser.
Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.
Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the ’70s and ’80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.
We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.
Until I read Anne Frank’s diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
I’ve always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they’re not trying to escape.
Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don’t know why – maybe as an escape. But then I was sent away to military prep school.
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one’s mind.
