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Quotes About Away

'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
~ Jeph Jacques
I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
~ J. K. Simmons
You have to take the belt, and I dont give my opponents a chance to take my belt. I go out there and take away their opportunity to take my belt away from me.
~ Demetrious Johnson
There are parts of the game you always miss. I have missed the competitive spirit, competing against the opposition. But I have really enjoyed time away from cricket.
~ Michael Clarke
God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!
~ Tom Waits
Out of the kingdom," Fox echoed suddenly. "Do you think … is he stupid enough to run away with her?" "If he's not," Snowflake said, "can we make him that stupid?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Touch and away, Jack?' asked Stephen. 'Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?' To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?' Perhaps not quite directly.
~ Patrick O'Brian
I certainly shall, sir. Anything for a quiet life is my motto.' 'And yet you were in a privateer.' 'Yes, sir. I was running away from a young woman: the same as when I left the Charleston horse-leech.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Writing about such things is a way of keeping the evil outside, away from me.
~ Paul Bowles
It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.
~ Samuel R. Delany
When the cow jerks away, it'll yank the door open." "But what's going to make the cow jerk away?" asked Little Richard. "You're going to milk it," said Slank. "But I don't know how to milk a cow!" said Little Richard. "Exactly.
~ Dave Barry
Subjects locked away in institutions and written off as casualties of peace.
~ David Foster Wallace
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The
~ Winston S. Churchill
A girl who would never play in a tournament. She'd been butchered by agents of the Red Rose when they'd been unable to steal her away.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Freedom is too abstract a concept: You can't eat it, fuck it, sit under it when it rains or even do very much with it besides get in trouble and have it taken away from you again. Most
~ Cintra Wilson
Cromwell, suppose you'd been away from England for seven years? If you'd been like a knight in a story, lying under an enchantment? You would look around you and wonder, who are they, these people?
~ Hilary Mantel
The life of the person sentenced to this punishment trickled away drop by drop.
~ Unknown
He looks like a faerie lover stepped out of a ballad, the kind where no good comes to the girl who runs away with him.
~ Holly Black
I do not have endless patience," Balekin growls. "Cultivate it," Cardan says, and with a small bow, he navigates us away from Balekin and Madoc.
~ Holly Black
Rain, rain, go away, come back when I am marathoning anime.
~ Holly Black
You had the advantage of me twice, and twice you gave it away. Good luck getting it again
~ Holly Black
His guilt slowly seeped away. His body metabolized it, like alcohol. And she colluded in his lunacy.
~ Liane Moriarty
Then the light had gone and they'd dissipated like death stars falling away from the sun.
~ Lisa Jewell
It's tough, when you play an iconic character, to break away from it. You have to make sure you have a lot of variety and make sure you choose roles that aren't similar to others, or else you get pigeonholed as one thing.
~ Billie Lourd