#cape

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art form #because #cinema #clear #difficult

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#drudgery #escape #every #every day #i

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#classical #consider #education #escape #fool

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#enable #escape #good #good advice #greatest

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#around #board #came #england #escape

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. ↗

— Keith Henson

#best #captured #dying #escape #fighting

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#disappear #escape #get #just #water

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#author #best #feel #get #his

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. ↗

— David Hockney

#landscape #thrill