#escaping

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#escaping #grew #i #like #me

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free. ↗

— David Lloyd

#artists #create #escaping #few #free

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. ↗

— David Lloyd

#escape #escaping #means #more #our

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#escaping #however #individual #market #market economy

Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a petri dish of mendacity she had shared with her faithless husband, and shared now with creeping dreams that flew from the light but left harsh scratches and diseased black feathers. Laine promised herself that, as soon as, she could, she would rid herself of this house, this bed, her clothes, her jewelry - everything but the flesh she lived in. She would scrub herself clean and flee to start a new life whose first and only commandment would be: Never let thyself be lied to again. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#betrayal #emotions #escaping #longing #loss

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#age #antiquity #censure #eminent #escaping

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#democracy #escaping #first #first step #full

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#escaping #especially #films #ones #prison

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#characters #escaping #films #them #trouble

-Nice concept. -What is? -Retreating. Getting away from the grind. -Oh, you never do. You just change gears. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#escaping-from-reality #nova #retreating #change