Away Quotes

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.