Escaping Quotes - Page 6

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Wind, People, Ifs

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• All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

  E. B. White

  Communication, Writing, Self

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less inconvenience along the way." "It's because of their guns!" declared Mr. Henderson, once more escaping his reverie, bobbing out of it as if to gasp for air. "Concise, my love." Mrs. Henderson gave him a smile. "And correct. Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don't need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to create a great nuisance for anyone who stops them, so they tend to be stopped...less often.

  Cherie Priest

  Gun, Air, Texas

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Dreadnought”, p.134, Pan Macmillan

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• ...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer - the sci-fi one especially - is seen as running away. Bollocks. This is real, for me, and it's tough, it's fun, it's practical, and it's very, very important.

  Russell T Davies

  Running, Fun, Real

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

  John Cusack

  Choices, Inevitable, Our Lives

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

  Chris Kattan

  Reality, Hollywood, Used

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.

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• I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to.  But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ.  I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him.  But if He does not, I shall not.  Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it.  And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Fall, Fighting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life

  Dainin Katagiri

  Spiritual, Pain, Suffering

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

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• When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get freaked out by them: mostly the people who believe, mistakenly, that fantasy is about escaping reality. To them I say: If you have a problem with reality, you should be spending more time dealing with your life, and less time reading popcorn fantasy.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Real, Mean, Plot

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.

  Vaclav Havel

  Thinking, World, Zappa

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• The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cutting, Gun, Clothes

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

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Reality, Jazz

  "An Open Letter To Miles Davis". Charles Mingus, Downbeat Magazine, November 30, 1955.

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• 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.

  Umberto Eco

  Want, Way, Limits

  "'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

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• The mighty hunter," I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. "He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.""One scary old lady," he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. "You didn't hear what she told me when I got up - you're so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that's not the creepiest thing you've ever heard." His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. "Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie.

  Julie Kagawa

  Cute, Voice, Apples

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• She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.

  Connie Brockway

  Running, Long, Dozen

  Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

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

  Thomas Wolfe

  Life, Romance, Feelings

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

  Hank Azaria

  Gay, Class, Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.

  Lauryn Hill

  Song, Successful, Thinking

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

  Al Pacino

  Way, Coping, Stage

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.

  Edward Gibbon

  Regret, History, Political

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.100

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• I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

  David Lloyd

  Art, World, Bedtime

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• I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.

  Woody Allen

  Children, Long, Sitting

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• 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

  Fear, Dark, Men

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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