I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.
You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.
But you shall not escape my iambics.
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.
It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.
As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.
A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.
I think the time has changed. Because of 911, because of the economy, it is more and more now. There is a darker awareness, although it would seem to reason that because life is so much tougher now people would seek entertainment to just totally escape.
Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.
Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
I love the studio. It's my place to escape and to create and to try anything.
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.
Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.