I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I’m already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be. – Jessica Simpson
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them – I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity. – Jakob Dylan
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. – Jawaharlal Nehru
Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can’t change them… but you can change your response to them. – Jami Attenberg
I do know that I’ve read somewhere that it’s been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don’t know why that is. You’d think it’d be the opposite. You’d think people would want to escape from it. – Aaron Stanford
I don’t go out to parties because I’d look terrible in pictures. My escape is television – it’s like meditation to me. – Alber Elbaz
Music is the reason I’m doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me. – Bow Wow
Also, most people read fiction as an escape – and I wonder whether my books aren’t a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience. – Alex Berenson
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small. – Brian Greene
I’ve always loved ‘lived-in’ sci-fi. We take it for granted now, but it was a revelation in the late ’70s – ’80s, when movies like ‘Alien’, ‘Escape From New York’, and even ‘Star Wars’ introduced us to the idea that the future could, in fact, look old. – Antony Johnston
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 was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I’ve never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables. – Blake Lively
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give – a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else. – Anne Roiphe
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game. – Alyssa Milano
How do you observe something you can’t see? This is the basic question of somebody who’s interested in finding and studying black holes. Because black holes are objects whose pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it, not even light, so you can’t see it directly. – Andrea M. Ghez
It’s going to be a rule, I think, for wearing a crash hat, and I actually fractured my skull through not wearing a hat. I was so lucky to escape from that, and now, it’s something I always do. – Charlotte Dujardin
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’ – Bill Bradley
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can’t escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary. – Caitlin Doughty
I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of ‘Mayberry,’ and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape. – Andy Griffith
All the best stories are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. – A. C. Benson
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them. – Charles Kennedy
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. – Benedict Cumberbatch
I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape. – Adam Baldwin
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. – Aristotle
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor. – Benedict Cumberbatch