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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
John Lancaster Spalding
Memory
Paradise
Hell
We Cannot
Driven
Also
Escape
May
Cannot
Which
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
Karen Abbott
Entertainment
Black
Changed
Characterized
Sunny
Magical
Clean
Vaudeville
Almost
Cheerful
Overnight
Were
Provided
Friday
Optimism
Escape
American
Uplifting
After
Fanciful
Acts
Tone
For me, horror movies are a real escape.
Lena Headey
Me
Horror
Horror Movies
Real
Escape
Movies
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.
Lucy Larcom
Nature
Some
Charm
More
Scenery
No-One
Noble
Feel
Employment
Close
Escape
Laborer
Than
Refreshment
Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?
Macklemore
Life
You
Live Life
Live
Escape
Want
It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.
Marti Noxon
First
Control
Batch
Adolescence
Menopause
Struggling
Because
Came
Escape
Happened
Interesting
Really
Second
Early
Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.
Maurizio Cattelan
Work
Art
Great
Every
Promise
Open
Invitation
Like
Escape
Therefore
When I dance, I escape the present and become one with my soul.
Normani Kordei
Soul
Dance
Become
My Soul
Escape
Present
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
Octavio Paz
Language
Signs
Pure
Painting
Everyone
Seeks
Recourse
Attempts
Shared
Abstract
Thus
Pictorial
Escape
Essential
Forms
Meanings
Languages
Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
Peter A. Levine
Heart
Increase
Increasing
Our
Respiration
System
Response
Threat
Objective
Rate
Adrenaline
Tension
Source
Heart Rate
Escape
Get
Whole
Prepare
Flooded
Away
Basic
Level
Basically
Muscles
No one can escape life's pain. That's life.
Pierce Brosnan
Life
Pain
No-One
Escape
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life
Me
Respect
First
Energy
Profit
Unity
Our
Strikes
Distaste
Kind
Hunting
Pursuit
Sacredness
Buddhist
Feel
Devoid
Also
Because
End
Escape
Effort
Expenditure
Illusory
Hare
The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'
Robert Baden-Powell
Success
Small Things
Natural
Signs
Sign
Detail
Detectives
Small
Never
Smallest
Most
Escape
Owe
Scouts
Them
Successful
Noticing
Things
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Roland Barthes
Day
Society
Alienation
Way
One-Way
Only
Only One Way
Retreat
Left
Escape
Present
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Russell Simmons
Art
You
Yourself
Situation
Way
Bad
Bad Situation
Through
Escape
Express
Express Yourself
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel Johnson
Birthday
Me
Thoughts
Humanity
Remember
Care
Seems
General
Return
Escape
Which
Fills
I live in Cape Town but my favourite holiday destination is Hermanus, a little seaside town about a 90-minute drive away, over the pass and down to the sea, on the sunshine coast. It's where I love to escape to with my wife for a weekend every now and again.
Wilbur Smith
Love
Destination
Sunshine
Wife
Drive
Down
Live
Every
Favourite
About
Weekend
Over
Town
Pass
Escape
Where
Again
Holiday
Little
Cape
Sea
Coast
Now
Away
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon
Injustice
Power
Increase
Those
Punishment
He
Conceal
Well
His
Commanding
Escape
Did
Same
Being
Order
Esteemed
Either
Them
Might
Riches
Reason
Desire
Desired
Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
P. J. O'Rourke
Death
God
Son
Grace
Important
Own
Live
Enough
Visited
Wrong
Well
Well Enough
Learn
His
Escape
Forever
May
Eternally
Us
Helping
Thereby
Right
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
A. A. Milne
Writing
Vain
Gave
Punch
Books
Once
Had
Always
Up
Escape
Children
Wanted
Them
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
A. C. Benson
Best
Reality
Only
How
Times
Escape
The Only Thing
Stories
Story
Which
Us
Interests
Thing
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
Adam Ross
Dreams
Marriage
Women
Men
Men And Women
Miserable
Prison
Difficult
Alike
Kind
Through
Periods
Escape
Anyone
Suffered
For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.
Agnes Bruckner
Me
You
Enjoy
Think
Everyday
Vampires
About
Something
Like
Because
Werewolves
Escape
Just
Movies
Personally
Really
Thing
I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.
Alan Furst
Work
Good
Ambition
Whatever
Entertain
High
About
Writer
Delusions
Call
Am
Escape
Fiction
Means
Serious
I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.
Alber Elbaz
Me
Meditation
Television
Out
Pictures
Like
Look
Parties
Terrible
Because
Go
Escape
Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.
Alek Wek
Family
Safety
Terrifying
Leaving
Were
Escape
Southern
North
Child
Trying
Capital
Sudan
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