Escaping Quotes

With commodity prices up strongly, and with the likelihood of the resources boom persisting for many months to come, it is hard to see Australia escaping without the need for higher interest rates. - Stephen Roberts

With cactus-studded desert mountains plunging into tranquil turquoise bays, gliding manta rays and pods of migrating orca whales, this uninhabited island in the Sea of Cortez, which separates mainland Mexico and the fingerlike Baja peninsula, is every bit the paradise island you dream of escaping to. It's also the perfect place to explore by sea kayak; warm water and sunshine are almost guaranteed from October to May. - Clare Jones

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life. - Laura Hillenbrand

When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded. - Laurie Anderson

What people are doing is escaping the winter grays. They can take off their coats, walk into our rain forest and suddenly it is 85 degrees and you are surrounded by lush foliage. - Paul Redman

We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate. - Joan Didion

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. - David Lloyd

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. - Viola Davis

We didn't have any sacks, but a little bit of that was Leon, who did a good job of escaping a couple times. We need to create more turnovers on defense and get some negative yardage plays. - Brent Guy

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. - Charles Baudelaire