Away Quotes

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

People who never get carried away should be.

My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.