Escape Route Quotes

Before going into a room, make sure you can get out again.

To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.

The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that.

When I came to New York as a writer, I was taken with the idea that you're only getting in on bridges and ferries and through tunnels. The idea behind 'Takedown' is that it would be very hard to get out.

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

For me, wrestling was an escape. It was like a way out.

Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.

I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.

I lived near the border with China, and one night, I simply left home and walked across the iced-over river that separated the two countries. I was fortunate that my family had close relationships with some of the border guards, so I was able to cross without incident.

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything.

You may not be able to predict the time of a tornado, earthquake or the Lord's return. But you can know for a fact that He is coming back. Work today to share the escape route of God's grace with others, before the night cometh.

Running away will never make you free.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.