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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce
Home
You
Yourself
Think
Way
Way Home
Run
Longest
Escaping
Shortest
Round
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
Edith Piaf
World
Singing
Earth
Way
Longer
Another
Escaping
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe
Life
You
Feeling
Prevent
True
Escape
Escaping
Romantic
Desire
Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
Victoria Pendleton
Day
Single
Every
About
Track
Single Day
Sprinter
Escaping
Being
Second
Every Single Day
Numbers
Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
Barry Ritholtz
Buy
Day
Thanksgiving
You
Affection
Spend
Gifts
Minute
Some
Weird
Another
How
Go
Families
Escaping
Begins
American
Cannot
Them
Stand
Show
Apparently
Now
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire
Work
Time
Down
Every
Pleasure
Weighed
Consumes
Conception
Escaping
Forgetting
Sensation
Us
Means
Choose
Moment
Let Us
Strengthens
Two
Nightmare
I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.
Alison Goldfrapp
Life
Love
Great
Book
World
Cinema
Everyday Life
Whatever
Everyday
Say
Find
Troublesome
Goodbye
Excuse
Hours
Couple
Because
Go
Escaping
Any
Quite
Film
When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.
Billy Campbell
First
Films
Television
Dream
Doing
Came
Escaping
Hollywood
Used
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
Charlie Hunnam
Me
Think
Films
Melancholy
Way
Slightly
Were
Escaping
Child
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
Chris Van Hollen
Education
Higher Education
Poverty
Cost
Higher
Obstacles
Greatest
Escaping
Staggering
All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it. But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state, and whom does it serve?
Chrystia Freeland
Work
Government
State
Possible
Purpose
Divisive
Well
Does
Questions
Escaping
Improve
Efforts
Essential
Want
Us
Should
Agree
Whom
Applaud
Serve
Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.
Clifford D. Simak
Man
Before
Not Knowing
Final
Earth
Lay
He
Hour
Knowing
Himself
Greatest
Snare
Than
Escaping
Planet
Less
Trap
Traps
Present
Fatal
If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.
Clive Anderson
You
Yourself
People
Burden
Rich
Every
Pocket
Point
Pound
Support
Greater
Passing
Than
Escaping
Person
Just
Clutch
Rich Person
Depriving
Realize
Poorer
Your
Even
Keep
Last
Chancellor
Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.
Criss Angel
You
People
Poverty
Looking
Would
Magic
About
Emotional
Emotional Level
He
Houdini
Truest
Escape
Escaping
Jacket
Form
Straight
Connected
Level
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
David Lloyd
Time
Our
Spend
Solving
More
Troubles
Developing
Escape
Than
Escaping
Trying
Means
I'm not one that really soaks up the limelight. I'm OK with kind of escaping it.
Derek Drouin
OK
Kind
Limelight
Up
Escaping
Really
When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.
Diana Silvers
Reality
Problems
Own
Way
Kind
Something
My Own
Always
Been
Tragic
Escape
Escaping
Want
Happens
Acting
Twisted
In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.
Dominique Moceanu
Life
Me
Sports
Better
Parents
Giving
States
Dream
Gymnastics
Better Life
Had
Put
Most
Course
Came
Escaping
Child
Romania
Regime
Popular
United
United States
Among
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.
Greil Marcus
Music
Drama
Elvis
He
Because
Limits
Escaping
Sang
Early
My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.
Hisham Matar
Political
Parents
Settled
Nine
Libya
Left
Escaping
Repression
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Me
Youth
Giving
Owes
Without
Escaping
Anything
I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.
John Glover
Have Fun
Joy
Somebody
Think
Else
Find
Doing
Escaping
Going
Reason
Fun
Actor
'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.
John Grant
World
Example
Rose
Difficulty
Cold
About
Temptation
Allen
Purple
Facts
Like
For Example
Terms
Occasional
Sort
Another
Coming
Version
Escape
Escaping
Pro
Woody
Movies
Hard
I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.
Jonas Gahr Store
Life
Poverty
Foreign Aid
Aid
Projects
Input
Give
Thus
How
Foreign
Real
Escaping
Children
Experienced
Helps
Large-Scale
Growth
Vaccination
Save
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph Addison
Man
Age
World
Every
Think
Indeed
Weakness
Folly
Eminent
Through
Passed
Affected
Persecution
Antiquity
Escaping
Censure
Fiery
Persons
Illustrious
That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.
Julie Walters
World
Escaping
Actress
Why
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