Escape The City Quotes

#1. I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.

Mariella Frostrup

#2. Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl.

Mickey Spillane

#3. And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a trance. The mind creates an alternative state.

Aminatta Forna

#4. Don't write stories for teenagers or any other group," she advised. "Write them for yourself and let the audience that needs them find them.

Wally Lamb

#5. We can't escape ourselves, Tag. Here, there, half-way across the world, or in a psych ward in Salt Lake City. I'm Moses and you're Tag. And that part never changes. So either we figure it out here or we figure it out there. But we still gotta deal. And death won't change that.

Amy Harmon

#6. I came to this city to escape.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.

Lyle Kessler

#8. For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.

Anna Netrebko

#9. I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.

Donatella Versace

#10. Convenience will put you out of business!

John Di Lemme

#11. Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn't feel like the universe was conspiring to keep me in a bubble.

Heather Demetrios

#12. The sea, you see, feels good for only a few days, but then it starts suffocating you. You first escape to the sea to escape yourself, but after a while that's all you find there. City is better that way. There are too many lanes and alleys. You never run into yourself there.

Bilal Tanweer

#13. Sure." Olivia smirked. "Good ol' New York Public Library. I'm sure it's up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

Cheyenne McCray

#14. Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

James Joyce

#15. I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library - subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps - and try to memorize them. I'm afraid of getting lost; no, I'm afraid of sinking into the city as in a quicksand, afraid of getting sucked into something I can never escape.

Deborah Feldman

#16. When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Tom Ford

#17. If at the end of the day the people of our city escape, it will be good.But if somehow our democracy remains standing - it will be even better.

Boaz Yakin

#18. A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#19. Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

Kate Chopin

#20. I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.

Heather Demetrios

#21. Triumphantly he says, Did you predict that, Lara Jean?

Jenny Han

#22. Thousands of people in the city who lived in walk-ups dreamed of moving out so they could escape having to climb flights of stairs. Yet here she was, surrounded by women of her age and younger, paying for the privilege.

Sean Black

#23. What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person. Suppose

Seneca.

#24. The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

Rem Koolhaas

#25. Nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. In

T. Colin Campbell

#26. Moments later, from the orphanage roof, a creature made of Christmas nightmares and holding a bulging sack that looked to hold doll-shaped toys made its escape through the silhouette of the city, not to be seen for another year.

Sebastian Gregory

#27. In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

Patti Smith

#28. We can, however, assess regularities by running precise and thorough experiments on how people react under certain conditions, and keep a tally of what we see.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#29. Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah!
- The Count Sesame Street

Richard Bachman

#30. We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way to Harvard. She supported an unbelievable escape of her children into education. In that sense it was a city completed pixillated, and every pixel contained amazing stories.

Rem Koolhaas

#31. I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.

George Kaiser

#32. There's a booming, rotating, never sleeping city in the center of my brain and no body can come in and I can't escape. I have a strange sense of pride that my brain works that way, but I'm also terrified of what would happen if I ever tried to think in another way.

Halsey

#33. Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

Zack Love

#34. Try to forget bit by bit, it will be easier on you. Leave it behind. Then the plane tilts in its escape and over the gray wing the city explodes into view with all its miles and spires and inscrutable hustle and as you try to comprehend this sight you realize that you were never really there at all.

Colson Whitehead

#35. Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#36. I close my eyes. An image flashes - emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us.
Instead life has only grown harder.

Lauren Oliver

#37. In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

Chuck Palahniuk

#38. I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

Agatha Christie

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Ryan Johnson

#40. Please,' Neil shook the stinging fluid out of his eyes. Don't beg. You'll appear weak DO NOT BEG. 'Please, I'm begging you. Don't take my bike. It's all I have left and I ... I ...' he looked behind him in the direction of the city, 'I can't go back.

Teresa Schulz