For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.
Drew Gilpin Faust
WarEscapeEverydayGrayThings
Stress impacts the way we think, feel, and behave. It often leads to a negative, self-perpetuating cycle that is hard to escape.
Amy Morin
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It's going to be a rule, I think, for wearing a crash hat, and I actually fractured my skull through not wearing a hat. I was so lucky to escape from that, and now, it's something I always do.
Charlotte Dujardin
HatThinkNowEscapeLuckyAlways
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
Steven Spielberg
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The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
Charles B. Rangel
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When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.
Tom Hodgkinson
FriendJobLunchLongEscapeOffice
You can't escape from yourself, can you?
Bernard Sumner
YourselfYouEscape
As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.
Rodman Philbrick
GreatEscapeKidSalvationBooks
I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.
Alan Furst
WorkGoodI AmAmbitionEscapeHigh
Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliott
MusicEscapeYourShould
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
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Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
Lois McMaster Bujold
PeopleThinkLiteratureBadEscape
I'd walked away from 'Come Dancing' and gave 'Blankety Blank' the elbow when I felt the public had had enough. But I didn't follow my instinct to escape from 'Wogan,' and was persuaded to continue for another two years. I kind of regret that.
Terry Wogan
RegretEnoughEscapeKindFollow
Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.
Jason Mraz
MusicWantEscapePlayingKeep
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.
Paul Johnson
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I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.
Paul Mooney
PathPeopleDownWrongEscapeLead
At age 14, my paternal grandfather fled Poland to escape the pogroms that killed tens of thousands of European Jews. He worked full-time for a cobbler in Boston, making his way to California and eventually starting his own business in Taft - the Goldman Oil Supply Company.
Dianne Feinstein
BusinessAgeGrandfatherEscapeWay
One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
Nellie Melba
FameEscapeNeverDrawbacks
Some women facing 'honour' crimes require relocation far outside the reaches of their extended families and changes of identity to escape detection.
Deeyah Khan
WomenIdentityEscapeChangesFar
I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.
Katie Price
FamilyTimeHometownEscapeLondon
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
PeopleGoWantEscapeRockMatters
I did a film called 'The Escape Artist' for Francis Coppola. I had the title role.
Harry Anderson
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Death was like love, a romantic escape.
Brigitte Bardot
LoveRomanticDeathEscapeLike
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
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