Escaping Quotes - Page 7

• Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music Is

  Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.69, Amadeus Press

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• I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.

  Woody Allen

  Children, Long, Sitting

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• The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Stress, Symbolism, Purpose

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.206, Rowman Altamira

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• If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping.

  Dane Cook

  Thinking, Drunk, Walmart

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2013

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• Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects.

  Stephanie Mills

  Psych, Technology, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I've already had a hard time dealing with some of the trappings of success and turned to some pretty stereotypical escape routes - ways of escaping my own reality and falling into some pretty clichéd situations.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Fall, Hard Times, Reality

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

  Lykke Li

  Art, Reality, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Winning, Nuclear

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.

  Jeanine Larmoth

  Eye, Unique, Curves

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• We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.290

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• Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Medieval, Economics, Moralizing

  "Economics As A Moral Science" by Kenneth E. Boulding, in "American Economic Review", 59 (1), (p. 12), March 1969.

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• There is just no escaping the fact that the single biggest factor determining whether an organization is going to get healthier - or not - is the genuine commitment and active involvement of the person in charge.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Commitment, Organization, Facts

  "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business". Book by Patrick Lencioni, 2012.

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• escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

  Terry Pratchett

  Important, Where You Are, Escapism

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• In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.

  Hank Azaria

  Gay, Class, Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.

  Lauryn Hill

  Song, Successful, Thinking

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

  Al Pacino

  Way, Coping, Stage

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum of an ice age, life reduced to mineral crystals. [. . .] I drove at great speed, as if escaping, pretending we could escape. Although I knew there was no escape from the ice, from the ever-diminishing remnant of time that encapsuled us.

  Anna Kavan

  Ice, Age, Vacuums

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• Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.

  Henry Miller

  Fear, Dark, Men

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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• I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

  David Lloyd

  Art, World, Bedtime

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• My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Art, Practice, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you get into any kind of period work, or any kind of prosthetic work, or anything that alters what your 8×10 looks like, it's the joy of escaping and becoming somebody else. And it is definitely freeing.

  Scott Bakula

  Joy, Looks, Becoming

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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• In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.

  Muhammad al-Baqir

  Grief, Greed, Cocoons

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• Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Heaven, Kingdoms, Fellowship

  Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.350, Aeterna Press

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• When my dreams showed signs
  of becoming
  politically correct
  no unruly images
  escaping beyond borders
  ...
  then I began to wonder

  Adrienne Rich

  Dream, Political, Becoming

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Sadness, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.105, tredition

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