Quotes of: Escaping Keyword

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Frederick Soddy

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

I can't escape reality but my mind can twist it for me. Therefore, mind can manipulate things.

Aser Alas Jr.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Alice James

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

Anna Paquin

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

Stan Slap

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

Stan Slap

I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.

Love

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

Tanith Lee

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Doris Lessing

But to be a parent is to live in the past-present-future all at once. It is to hug your children and be intensely aware of how much smaller they felt last year ... even as you wonder how much bigger they will feel the next. It is to be a time-shifter...

Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attentio...

I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

I think that, generally, people of the world typify a "free and wild" person as someone who's uprooted, detached and uninhibited. But I don't believe in that kind of freedom. I think that's an infantile concept. Freedom means something when it has es...

C. JoyBell C.

Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.

Chance Escape

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Course in General Linguistics

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Death on the Nile

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

Dead Man's Ransom

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Eleonora

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

Endgame

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales