Books Being An Escape Quotes

#1. People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline ... The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.

Jennifer E. Smith

#2. I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person

John C. Wright

#3. I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#4. Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

Jeb Bush

#5. Hattie clambered from the train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud, the dream of Philadelphia round as a marble in her mouth and the fear of it a needle in her chest.

Ayana Mathis

#6. I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.

Rachel Nichols

#7. The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

Lance Armstrong

#8. It's not just land that is broken, but more importantly, our relationship to land.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#9. We encounter electromagnetic fields every single day. Many invisible waves and vibrations cross in the space around us. Even the physical pains and emotional moods of other people around us affect our lives. Our souls match/mirror the vibrations of other people faster than our bodies.

Hina Hashmi

#10. My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Katherine Heigl

#11. I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

Richard Griffiths

#12. It was still the pre-eminent social networking site for the 0-3 age group

Greg Egan

#13. We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

Barack Obama

#14. Citizens of a modern society need [ ... ] more than that ordinary "common sense" which was defined by Stuart Chase as that which tells you that the world is flat.

S.I. Hayakawa

#15. True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

Charles Spurgeon

#16. If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Peter M. Brant

#17. With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Ezra Pound