#escape

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#another #consider #entertainment #escape #form

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

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

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

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#close #close attention #detail #escape #organization

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered. ↗

— Philip Hone

#country #escape #first #homes #occasion

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism. ↗

— Peter Hook

#around #based #bear #business #escape

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#escapes #grouch #little #many #pays

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#best #best time #conscience #degeneration #escape