We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes. – Louis R. Chenevert
Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so I was going off on my own and imagining what I thought stability was. Ballet became a way for me to cope. – Misty Copeland
Chances are you’re using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It’s an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face. – Karen Salmansohn
I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day’s very severe fighting and escaped unhurt. – John Hunt Morgan
There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity. – Katherine Dunn
When I walk through that gate to the court, that’s my escape. I block out everything, good and bad. – Maria Sharapova
People are just obsessed with other people’s lives. I don’t know whether it’s kind of a way to escape their own, or something to follow… I really couldn’t tell you. – Lauren Conrad
In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. – James L. Buckley
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. – Pete Domenici
I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims. – Robert Iler
Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they’d otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans. – Robert Reich
I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a ‘mummy’s boy.’ – Rufus Wainwright
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. – Paul Eldridge
Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen. – Sam Houston
The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you’re playing. – Pia Zadora
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one. – Rafael Yglesias
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not… well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre. – Richard Foreman
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone. – Octavio Paz
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. – Robert Kiyosaki
It’s still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don’t think I would do it otherwise. – Peter Doig
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. – Raoul Vaneigem
Oshoism is creating a Noah’s Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that’s what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core. – Osho
Famous for his ‘Maverick’ Western series in the 1950s and ‘The Rockford Files’ in the ’70s, and in movies like ‘The Great Escape’ and ‘Grand Prix’ in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal. – Richard Corliss
