Away Quotes

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.

And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.

'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.