#escape

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#chance #escape #mental #nose #obliquely

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#been #calamity #escaped #first #first thing

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#childhood #escape #existence #here #i

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#could #drive #escape #except #exist

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#escape #ever #every #every man #fire

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#fantasy #get #i #i think #look

Music is an escape for me. ↗

— Tom Scholz

#me #music

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. ↗

— Walter Scott

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