#escape

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it. ↗

— Nellie Melba

#escape #fame #never

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#bottom #car #could #down #drove

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

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head? ↗

— Simon Pegg

#basically #end #end of the world #escape #event

I don't think I can ever escape from music. ↗

— Jason Derulo

#ever #i #i can #music #think

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desire #escape #far #greater #intercourse

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#country #embassy #escape #friendly #happen

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#known #new #new south wales #nothing #over

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#arrest #because #berlin #burning #catch

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#anything #efforts #escape #evil #fruitless