Escape From The Everyday

Famous quotes containing the words escape from the, escape from, escape and/or everyday:

“The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“You don’t resign from these jobs, you escape from them.”
—Dawn Steel (b. 1946)

“... we’ve allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyond fifty, sixty, or seventy—all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics—many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)