Away Quotes

It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.

It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.