#escape

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. ↗

— Albert Camus

#chord #ears #escape #eternally #even

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. ↗

— John Candy

#become #character #escape #hide #i

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us. ↗

— Victor Cherbuliez

#eyes #half #hearts #joy #keep

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK. ↗

— Will Arnett

#away #bit #come #escape #get

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

#alliance #art #between #circumstance #ecstasy

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. ↗

— William Blackstone

#escape #guilty #innocent #suffer #ten

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#artists #because #been #born #escape

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. ↗

— George Borrow

#been #dreary #escape #idleness #itself

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#escape #gotten #just #most #movies

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#background #culture #escaped #i #often