I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn’t notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection. – Nicole Kidman
We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that. – Edgar Ramirez
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. – Ellis Peters
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape. – Paul Auster
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. – Dean Koontz
In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven. – Cullen Bunn
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there. – Emile M. Cioran
To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous. – Gary Hamel
Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a form of escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable norm. – Erin O’Connor
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there’s no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them. – Paul Mooney
In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors. – Michael Korda
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you’re trying to escape? – Marilyn French
Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign. – Michael Bergin
Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles. – E. T. A. Hoffmann
Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them. – Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
That’s John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he’ll find his way out. There’s something in him – he’s a great escape artist. – Matt Ryan
Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we’re all locked into the body; we can’t escape it. – Glen Duncan
I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, ‘Hey, do you want to make a movie?’ And that’s how I made friends, and it was also my escape. – Matt Reeves
In ’73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn’t make you feel relaxed… I managed to escape unscathed though, I’m pretty good at that. – David Bailey
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. – Matthew Prior
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. – Edwin M. Stanton
There’s nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won’t give you a break if you don’t hold them. There’s no escape. – Frank McCourt
That’s the thing about interviews, at some point you’re going to change your mind. But it’s there forever and you can’t escape it. – Martha Plimpton
