Just Escape Quotes

#1. If you drive down there," I said, "he'll just escape the other way. That's what he's counting on. You have to walk down there, point your gun at him, and yell at him in that charming way you have.

Jennifer Echols

#2. Music is, I think, the best way to ... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.

Hayley Williams

#3. There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.

Pitbull

#4. Refugees didn't just escape a place. They had to escape a thousand memories until they'd put enough time and distance between them and their misery to wake to a better day.

Nadia Hashimi

#5. I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

Barry Hannah

#6. In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

Henry Rollins

#7. I need a life that isn't just about needing to escape my life.

Robert Polito

#8. My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

Diego Corrales

#9. The disappointments seemed to escape the family's notice, though. That was another of their quirks: they had a talent for pretending that everything was fine. Or maybe it wasn't a quirk at all. Maybe it was just further proof that the Whitshanks were not remarkable in any way whatsoever.

Anne Tyler

#10. For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

Iggy Azalea

#11. If you have trouble with finding things you should get into some kind of therapy with a good therapist if you need, I mean I just believe in therapy for everybody. I really do. I don't think any body can escape it.

Joy Behar

#12. Aster was eager for any kind of
Chance. She had only wanted a chance. A way out, a greater story than the one that had been written for her, just like I had wanted. Tell my bapa I tried, Miz. A chance to control her own destiny. But for her, escape was impossible.

Mary E. Pearson

#13. But at the time I didn't know that it would take more to escape black-and-white thinking than just no longer attending your parents' church. The church had provided me a sorting system, which was now ingrained. It had containers into which every person and idea and event was to be placed.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#14. Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

David Macaulay

#15. There's one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don't have anywhere else to go.

Jason Medina

#16. Sometimes sex is just a way to escape having to talk to that person.

Dane Cook

#17. She has the kind of love that can stain your soul, make you beg not to have one, just to escape the spell she's put you under. I've tried to break myself of her over and over, but it's pointless. I've got more of her in my veins than blood

Tarryn Fisher

#18. It's only physical, she reminded herself. Just lust. Some kind of twisted, mutual escape valve. And those physical things, with no love or respect or loyalty to bind and preserve them, had a short shelf life. They were limited-time offers. Three months, tops.

Jess Riley

#19. No one else could see all the bodies she'd left behind, but they were there, looking at her. Or maybe that was just her, looking at herself, and not liking what she saw. Knowing she could never escape her own judging gaze.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#20. Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living ...

Taylor Caldwell

#21. Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until it rotted around him, rotted, bloated, exploded, and fell away to let the pure Jack Kerouac, the saint, escape free at last - remembered only as a ghost.

Gerald Nicosia

#22. He's fighting it, probably more for me than for him, and it's hard because unconsciousness would be its own form of escape. But the adrenaline pumping through my body would never allow me to follow him, so I can't let him go. I just can't.

Suzanne Collins

#23. It's Mr. Reese, the school principal. He wears the same outfit he wears every day. A beige suit, light blue shirt, red tie and hair that looks like it just went through a vacuum cleaner. He appears especially harried today, as his eyeglasses sit on his nose like they want to escape his face.

Ben Zackheim

#24. Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

Petra Haden

#25. I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

Helena Bonham Carter

#26. Death did not play favorites - He loved all equally.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure .
The god's voice - not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind -

Lilith Saintcrow

#27. I do all my work to escape myself. I don't believe in looking into yourself. If you do this, you just discover a lot of shit. I think what we should do is throw ourselves out of ourselves. The truth is not deep in ourselves. The truth is outside.

Slavoj Zizek

#28. I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Paul Auster

#29. I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that' ... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

Jonathan Banks

#30. The village may have replaced "the state," and it in turn may have replaced the fist with the hug, but an unwanted embrace from which you cannot escape is just a nicer form of tyranny.

Jonah Goldberg

#31. The only way to escape the feeling of loneliness is to just be silent

Sonya Withrow

#32. There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Dalai Lama

#33. The rule of fishes is the same as the rule of people: if the shark comes, they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. They share a single jumpy heart that drives them to move all together, running away from danger just before it arrives. Somehow they know. Underneath

Barbara Kingsolver

#34. No creature should ever be trapped against its will," she used to say. "It will ruin itself, just trying to escape.

Susan Wiggs

#35. Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Bill Bradley

#36. It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Marcus Aurelius

#37. It's maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.

David Lynch

#38. If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

Palmer Luckey

#39. I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life.

Miranda Kerr

#40. I shuddered at the thought of what I would do for her if she asked - kill, steal, desecrate the holy god Ambi, destroy cities and masses of people just at her command.

Kenya Wright

#41. A year ago I was being kept in this cell and I didn't want to kill anyone, not even the people who held me prisoner. I just wanted to escape, just wanted freedom. And now I have that; I have my freedom.

Sally Green

#42. I don't like anything that's "just an escape." To me the best part of golf is that, unlike my tennis game, I can actually get better. I've probably reached my plateau in tennis, but in golf I have a lot of room for improvement. I really enjoy working on my game. I like practicing. I chart my rounds.

Condoleezza Rice

#43. The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

Colin Greenwood

#44. Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran inside, ready to buy anything, just to escape the noise.

J.D. Robb

#45. When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

Jonathan Davis

#46. I think the time has changed. Because of 9/11, because of the economy, it is more and more now. There is a darker awareness, although it would seem to reason that because life is so much tougher now people would seek entertainment to just totally escape.

Lauren Shuler Donner

#47. It wasn't supposed to be this way. Griffin asked me to take a chance. On him. On trust. On love. I did, and look where it got me. That my misery is my own damn fault doesn't escape me. It just makes it worse.

Amanda Bouchet

#48. I hope to evoke emotion in others, help them escape for even just a little while into different worlds, different times and different thoughts. Whenever I'm able to lend my name to worthy causes and try and change this world for the better I feel like my work is a success.

James Preston Rogers

#49. When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order

N. T. Wright

#50. Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside.

Fennel Hudson

#51. The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.

Catherynne M Valente

#52. 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

#53. I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

Adam Young

#54. Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn't be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob

Stephenie Meyer

#55. What feels like such a painful loss now will become something beautiful later on. You cannot escape your destiny. You can certainly try. People do so every day. They hold on tight, and the river just dries up.

Elizabeth Lesser

#56. I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.

Lana Del Rey

#57. Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

David Byrne

#58. I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

Paula Hawkins

#59. I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

Georges Bernanos

#60. Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

Bernhard Schlink

#61. Even so, I was growing more anxious to make my escape and fly like an arrow as far away as I could. But I'd made a deal with Collin, and I couldn't break it after just one day, could I?

Jody Hedlund

#62. The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

Colson Whitehead

#63. At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Brett Ratner

#64. I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#65. 'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.

Kris Holden-Ried

#66. My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

Carl Hiaasen

#67. Did you escape a mental institution? "No." "Are you taking any drugs? Were you dropped on your head as a child?" "No and no. Why?" "Because only an idiot would give me shit for sticking around to take care of an unconscious woman who was just attacked.

Eve Langlais

#68. Some people just make me feel mentally endangered. Whatever dark stuff is going on in their head, it's coming at me and I need to escape.

Heidi Julavits

#69. Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.

Erin Beresini

#70. I don't have a career, I don't have a family, and I don't know what to do next. I've been so determined to escape anything permanent, and now I just feel like I'm nowhere. And what if that's the permanent thing by default?

Jonathan Tropper

#71. You just use the future to escape the past.

John Green

#72. I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.

Mathias Malzieu

#73. Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head?

Simon Pegg

#74. Foul smell of the things that we do to escape
There is no glamour in this. No rock and roll.
This is just endings. This is just grief.

Kate Tempest

#75. Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

Chuck Palahniuk

#76. Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.

Claudio Sanchez

#77. Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.

Chuck Wendig

#78. I don't think there is anyone in public life today who can escape the inevitable onslaught of the media. It seeks to pry into and often grossly distort aspects of one's personal and professional life. I guess it just comes with the territory.

Frederick Lenz

#79. That's how they hooked you - they gave you just enough to keep alive but they never gave you enough so you could finally escape.

Charles Bukowski

#80. I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

Tom Welling

#81. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. - Alaska

John Green

#82. The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax.

John McCain

#83. As a child she thought if she could just pull away the fence they would turn back into the beautiful horses they really were and escape to the old plains. she had hope in that power

Mary E. Pearson

#84. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. ( ... ) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

John Green

#85. A past may chase you if you try to escape from it ... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.

Kazuya Minekura

#86. I'd like to know why you dialed my number tonight, but if you don't wanna share that shit, that's cool too. I'll just say, babe, I'm glad you did. You need a safe place just to forget shit and escape, I'll give it to you. Tonight. Tomorrow. Next week. Next month. That safe place is me, Tabby.

Kristen Ashley

#87. Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

Bill Crawford

#88. A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#89. Dozens of books. I wonder if she's read them all, or if she just needs them for comfort. Maybe she uses them as an escape from her real life.

Colleen Hoover

#90. We must reject the thought that evangelism is to be separated from the importance of standing against evil. We weren't saved just to escape this world and go to Heaven. Transformed people transform the culture while standing boldly against evil.

James Robison

#91. As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

Michael J. Fox

#92. She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.

Alice Munro

#93. Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

#94. And all this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and his true aims, and a means of surrounding himself with an ever closer mesh of distractions and useless activities.

Hermann Hesse

#95. '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

#96. Just because there is no perceivable alternate exit does not mean another exit does not exist. I believe there may indeed be a way to escape.

Colleen Houck

#97. If I'm not experiencing an episode then it's just the fear that one is right around the corner. I have no escape.

Jeannine Allison

#98. The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

Brian Michael Bendis

#99. He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.

Jasmine Warga

#100. The Red Door was a part of me and being there was an escape right up until the doors closed. I didn't want it to be over. Not even just for the night. After

Jamie McGuire