#escape

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. ↗

— Tom Ford

#city #country #escape #film #get

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#dawn #dead #difficult #escape #film

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#danger #debts #escaped #every #great

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings. We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#day-to-day #escape #explanation #freedom #future

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt. ↗

— John H. Morgan

#been #day #escape #escaped #fighting

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. ↗

— John Newton

#am #begin #content #end #escape

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#escape #everything #hors #into #led

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. ↗

— Anais Nin

#bird #coffee #escape #fire #i

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid. ↗

— Larry Niven

#becoming #chance #command #decent #dinosaur

I now know how your anger came from skeletons that rattled in your heart and you couldn't escape them. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#escape #haunted #memory #poetry #skeletons