Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
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.
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
I wanted to escape the drudgery of a small town existence. Any place bigger than Gwalior was fine. I took the first train to Delhi because that was the only fare I could afford.
There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.
My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.
It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.
We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.