In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.
Sandra Cisneros
SleepMindMeYouthPlaceEscape
'Escape Plan' did better in China than it did in the U.S.
Jon Feltheimer
BetterPlanEscapeChinaThanDid
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
Diego Corrales
GreatMeFindTroubleBoxingEscape
I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.
Ne-Yo
AmazingTryingPenDownEscapeHead
Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.
Demi Lovato
CreativityMeDemonsEscapeInner
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
Jakob Dylan
PerseveranceHopeEscapeNeverWrite
For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.
Christopher Fowler
ImaginationMeEscapeAlwaysMeans
I've seen 'Stalker' more times than any film except 'The Great Escape.'
Geoff Dyer
GreatEscapeMoreSeenFilmThan
I'm near the beach, and I'm definitely a beach bum. For me, going to training and then going to the beach is kind of an escape for me to get away from everything and relax. It's really done wonders for me.
Brendan Schaub
BeachTrainingMeRelaxDoneEscape
There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.
Frank McCourt
New YorkCityWorldYouNewEscape
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
Anne Roiphe
MomentHumanityYouEscapeInsight
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
Eduardo Galeano
WordsAdventureWritingEscapeRun
There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.
Wole Soyinka
StrengthCultureStressEscapeWay
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry
GoodPastBetterBadEscapeStrive
I'm really loving Billie Eilish's 'idontwannabeyouanymore.' Her dreamy vocals offer such a lovely moment of escape, and there's a sophistication to the lyrics that are so surprising coming from a teen artist.
Tan France
MomentTeenArtistLovingEscape
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
FoodEatingEscapeEmotionalUs
We all have an escape. Mine was theater.
Samantha Barks
EscapeMineTheater
While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
LifeMeEndEarlyEscapeMental
Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
FootballHappyGoEscapeWhereMost
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
PeaceWarProblemsEscapeOnly
If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
M. Night Shyamalan
FeelingDownGoEscapeWriteWould
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
Richard Foreman
WorldEscapeRealWellEnchanted
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth
LoveChangeGodHateManEscape
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.
Niger Innis
KnowledgeHeartWorldDarkEscape
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