Absconding Quotes

The fame thing made me run - it got out of hand and I needed to go away.

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.

I'm not really a fugitive.

I really wanted to get out of England.

Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.

You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.

Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

I left Liverpool through the back door.