In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt
DeathGoEscapeLivingTryOrder
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
Mark Haddon
ChildrenPossibilitiesEscapeBegin
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
A. A. Milne
ChildrenWritingEscapeAlwaysUp
Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.
Martha MacIsaac
CarParentsGivingYouEscapeTalk
We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
Edgar Ramirez
InfluenceNobodyEscapePersonal
I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.
Liam Hemsworth
EscapeAlwaysUpZenSurfingBeen
In a well-monitored storage site, it is always possible to release CO2 in a controlled manner in the unlikely event that it threatens to escape. Such a release is certainly no worse than ignoring the emission in the first place.
Klaus Lackner
PlaceEscapePossibleFirstAlways
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Julian Barnes
LifeGreatBookYouEscapePlunge
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
Joel Fuhrman
FoodDeathLawChoicesYouEscape
There are people whose feelings and well-being are within our influence. We can never escape this fact.
Hugh Prather
PeopleInfluenceFeelingsEscapeOur
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
John Crowe Ransom
PoetryEscapeArtsModernismHow
The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch.
Henry Spencer
SpaceEscapeWillUpTowerRocket
There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.
Mekhi Phifer
ManBlackEscapeQuestionGoingOK
For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.
Geri Halliwell
GreatMeReadingEscapeWithout
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.
Robert Kiyosaki
ProblemsLegalEscapeWayFraudHe
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz Kafka
PossibilitiesEscapePlacesHiding
I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
Andy Griffith
DayEvery DayPlayEscapeProveOut
I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
Elizabeth McGovern
LifeFindEscapeDifferentJust
Now that I've moved to Mumbai, I should perhaps get a horse. It'll be a nice escape from my everyday life.
Amy Jackson
LifeHorseNiceNowEscapeEveryday
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.
David Bailey
GoodMeFeelYouNewEscape
Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
Steven Millhauser
LifePeopleMeWritingEscapeWay
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Charles Spurgeon
LifeGodDeterminationPeopleEscape
Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I'm a loser.
Trudie Styler
HeartMeLoserEscapeActorWhich
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
Alexandra Fuller
MeWorldRealityLiteratureEscape
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