The appeal of the paranormal bad boy - or James Bond super-spy, as one example of male escapism - can sometimes make… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden his books, which had hitherto been merely a fond decoration and a means of letting his mind free… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it.… — Ben Saunders Copy Share Image
I understand that a lot of other actors don't have a choice. They have to eat so they need to work and… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The show is escapism. If you look back to when I was in college, all the girls in the sorority houses were… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“...there was one thing she would think about when she was high, one thing she would feel: that she was transparent, not… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them.… — Gary Carr Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
“I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“Masterpiece" lives on and on because it brilliantly does one of the things television is supposed to do: it entertains and distracts.… — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
“Some people call reading an escape, but it's not - it's embracing the true reality of the best parts of who we… — Sean Gibson Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
