Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. – Lois McMaster Bujold
Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is our safety net that allows full participation in the economy. More Americans purchasing goods means more Americans making them, which means more American jobs. – John Yarmuth
I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn’t escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic. – Mariella Frostrup
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. – Julien Green
I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast. – Katie Price
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. – John Mortimer
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women. – Lael Brainard
I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape. – Liam Hemsworth
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. – Lyndon B. Johnson
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. – Mark Haddon
I’m sort lucky in that for me, I’m a writer now. I started as an actor but I’m a writer and so things like ‘Wilfred’ and shows like that are where I escape to. – Jason Gann
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment. – Lucy Larcom
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. – John Lancaster Spalding
The last few years I’ve had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about ‘Wilfred.’ – Jason Gann
The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom. – Kevin McCarthy
I was suddenly really famous, and I didn’t know how to cope. I didn’t know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape. – Kate Winslet
No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war’s dislocation. – Joe Haldeman
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight. – Karen Abbott
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. – Marcus Aurelius
I’m really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while. – Luke Bracey
In a well-monitored storage site, it is always possible to release CO2 in a controlled manner in the unlikely event that it threatens to escape. Such a release is certainly no worse than ignoring the emission in the first place. – Klaus Lackner
The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn’t it? – and yet the most stimulating – and one simply cannot escape it. – Karen Horney
Everyone wants to escape, everyone’s drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we’re all so curious as human beings. – Josh Bowman
I did a movie called ‘Quicksand No Escape’ with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom. – Kaley Cuoco