My father made many narrow escapes during his time in Vietnam.
When the Emergency was proclaimed at midnight on 25 June 1975, they came to arrest me. I managed to escape by going to a friend’s house nearby.
Nobody escapes age and gravity.
I didn’t really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
I don’t watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of ‘Law and Order,’ the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.
I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another – into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.
There’s no way to escape who we are.
Music is an escape for me.
I think I was 10 or 11 years old. I think the first song I learned about then was ‘Open Arms.’ Then, when I got tired of listening to ‘Open Arms,’ I borrowed my friend’s Journey album, ‘Escape,’ and tried to listen to every song.
The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance – a ‘good’ bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies’ man.
Spending time with the horses was also a good place to escape to if you were having a bad day, so it was good from a mental point of view.
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
You can’t escape from what you are.
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I’ve found it hard to read as much as I’d like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.
I’m a massive daydreamer. I’m constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
I looked at basketball as something that I love and escape from the real world, and in order to continue to escape the real world, you got to work hard at it.
Here’s a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can’t escape. That’s what all my girlfriends’ parents did.
No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do.
In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.
Governments can’t escape from taking tough steps. One can’t be populist about it. You can’t flirt with such serious issues like security.
I hope to help people. I hope that I can be the escape that they need when things seem impossible or too tough.
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel… if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see, there is simply no escape.
Movies are about escape.
If you come from the Internet, as I do – I think of it as sort of my native country – there’s a lot of great things happening on the Internet, but one of the things, one of the feelings you just can’t escape is the sense that it’s really hard to keep people’s attention.
Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters – someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we’re all in this together.
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It’s true drama. You really don’t know what’s going to happen.
Whether it’s a kid in high school who doesn’t have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who’s trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he’s gotta do tomorrow… I give them a little bit of an escape.
My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.
I don’t think I can ever escape from music.
If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
I’m not in favor of the death penalty. But I’m in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it’s the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that’s fine. The overall meaning is what matters.
I create a world where kids rule. If you think about it, kids are always being told what to do, what to say, when to do it – they’re very controlled… I give them an escape, where the kids are in charge.
Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.
The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation of their property and the purchase and export of German goods to break the boycott of Germany’s Nazi-controlled economy.
For some people, it’s impossible to escape binaries.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.
You can’t really escape the fact that more reasonable gun regulations and procedures need to be in place, a strengthening and tightening of the national background check system. I don’t know why any civilian would ever be able to purchase an assault weapon or the parts that go with it.
As a young founder in high-stress situations, I often used alcohol to escape facing things. I’ve struggled with this for a long time, and while I think I’ve gotten better over time, I believe that this is the last thing preventing me from actualizing my 100 percent conscious self.
I really wanted to escape from that little girl. But it seems to me that the picture didn’t let me go.
Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad’s confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
Platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. have been a great escape for a lot of people who don’t watch television and want to ditch the heavy priced tickets and snacks at the movie theaters. And the number is only growing.
Blue Origin’s successful capsule escape demonstration represents a material step toward a fully re-usable sub-orbital vehicle.
I don’t think I’ll ever escape the fact that I don’t belong anywhere in particular. I’ve often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that’s a very romantic notion. It’s a hideous country to go to in reality.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Sometimes a malfunctioning test setup actually gives the tested system a chance to show what it can do in an unrehearsed emergency. During a test of an Apollo escape system in the 1960s, the escape system successfully got the capsule clear of a malfunctioning test rocket.
I think that there should be more artists that want to be the escape for people, for the fans, for the public.
The difference between anger and deep remorse – remorse is much fatter. It’s a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It’s kind of like religion – once you’ve written the Bible, that’s it, move on.
Music can provide a much-needed break from life’s harsh moments, but Eddy Current Suppression Ring has no interest in creating a sonic fire escape for the distraught. Instead, the band embraces the real world, wrapping its arms around the beautiful and the ugly alike.
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it’s tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth, and revise the Eurocentric and Christian tropes that Tolkien’s particular worldview bequeathed.
