464 Escape Quotes for You to Enjoy

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia. Lyle Kessler

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Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. Lyndon B. Johnson

Learning Poverty Must Escape Offer Bar

Its not just about competition: it's my life, my lifestyle. So I train every day, and I feel very good, because sometimes training is like meditations for me; it's a good escape to me to the problems for everything. Lyoto Machida

'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.' M. C. Gainey

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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape. M. Night Shyamalan

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Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape? Marilyn French

You Simple Nothing Like Parts Discover Escape Role Trying Ever

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. Mark Haddon

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I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London. Martin Evans

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As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. Martin Lewis Perl

Poverty Jews Russia Left Escape Families

It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest. Martin Rees

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Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design. Martin Rees

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Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself. Mary Karr

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. Matthew Prior

There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that. Mekhi Phifer

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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. Michael Bergin

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self. Michael Dirda

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Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice. Michael Dirda

There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape. Michael Fassbender

I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car. Michael Franti

Car Drive Hybrid Only Ford Escape

In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors. Michael Korda

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It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens. Michael Mullen

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