Away Quotes

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

Running away will never make you free.

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or older, I can probably get away with that.

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

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.

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.