Top 100 Get Away Sayings
#1. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
Jon Ronson
#2. As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.
Jodhi May
#3. Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?
Tana French
#4. I unrolled my window to get away from the cigarette smog a little and watched a different world roll by.
Stephen King
#5. Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.
Jonny Lee Miller
#6. People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'
Gretchen Wilson
#7. I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.
Daniel Tosh
#8. Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.
J.K. Rowling
#9. I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them.
Tyler Posey
#10. If that woman looks like a million dollars and puts it right in your face, that one you get away from," R.D. told him. "That one in the corner who is quiet? That's the one you go after.
Ian O'Connor
#11. You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.
Lyle Lovett
#12. When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.
Bill Cosby
#13. Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.
Lorna Landvik
#14. I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.
Angela Carter
#15. In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
Aasif Mandvi
#16. The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
Hal Sparks
#17. Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you're afraid, that's the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don't run; don't panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.
Barry Lyga
#18. In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and from all that retinal painting.
Marcel Duchamp
#19. The sight of home looks best after you've traveled hundreds of miles to get away from it.
Sam Ewing
#20. How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?
Richard Siken
#21. 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.
Kyle Chandler
#22. Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
Fay Weldon
#23. And the dog you're taking with you will be no help to you. You can't get away from yourselves.
Leo Tolstoy
#24. Death is hungry and Destruction is determined and it does not like its intended victims to get away.
David Almond
#25. Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
Elizabeth Janeway
#26. it's been laid on my heart and I want to help others get away from abusive spouses.
Carolyn Brown
#27. Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.
Rose Macaulay
#28. It's like I have no idea who I am anymore," said Tristan. "Who the hell was that?"
"I don't know, but he's like ... the porn fairy ... and I'm not letting him get away.
Z.A. Maxfield
#29. There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.
Jimi Hendrix
#30. I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
Dominic West
#31. They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
Robert Smith
#32. She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.
Michael Dorris
#33. Get away from me, you wicked treat devil."
She laughs. "Wicked treat devil? Wow. You can do better than that."
"Evil dessert demon?"
"Still lame."
"Chocolate temptress of salty death."
"Now you're just reaching.
Chelsea Fine
#34. Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.
Alice Waters
#35. Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away.
Julia Quinn
#37. How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature.
Rick Smolan
#38. I have a million ideas. I'm boiling over with them. I had to go for a walk to get away from them, but the problem with ideas is that the more you walk, the more you get. They breed in the brainpan.
Lauren Groff
#39. Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
Milton Friedman
#40. I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.
Louis C.K.
#41. I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.
Chadwick Boseman
#42. I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
James Gandolfini
#43. Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.
Carl Whitaker
#44. The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have.
Scott Bakula
#45. He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.
Francine Rivers
#46. One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
Hugh Prather
#47. It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.
Jackie Evancho
#48. I know is, one minute I'm ticking along fine and life is sweet and I want for nothing, and the next I can't wait to get away, I'm all over the place, slipping and sliding again.
Paula Hawkins
#49. When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.
Ann Leckie
#50. No, you're going in vain," she mentally addressed a company in a coach-and-four who were evidently going out of town for some merriment. "And the dog you're taking with you won't help you. You won't get away from yourselves.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.
Ziggy Marley
#52. I can't get away from that feeling. That need to know. It's there every day like a bruise that doesn't heal.
Joe Hart
#53. Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
Rick Perlstein
#54. All the stuff you can't wait to get away from, until it's not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.
Morgan Matson
#56. What they held was already inside me, and together we could get away. And standing over the smoldering pile of paper and type, still warm the next cold morning, I understood that there was something else I could do. "Fuck it," I thought, "I can write my own.
Jeanette Winterson
#57. I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.
Louise Erdrich
#58. I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.
Elayne Boosler
#59. She couldn't get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn't get away.
Cynthia Voigt
#60. It's important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It's about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.
Misty May-Treanor
#61. I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life
Candace Bushnell
#62. Get away from me, you sick fuck!"
"I'm not the one who kidnapped you, so save it. Either you want the water and aspirin or you can eat shit and die, your choice."
Lyonette groaned. "Maya.
Dot Hutchison
#63. There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter how far away you are from civilization, you can't fully get away from that.
Jonathan E. Steinberg
#64. Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.
Daisy Whitney
#65. Yeh always wait fer the Hippogriff ter make the first move,' Hagrid continued. 'It's polite, see? Yeh walk towards him, and yeh bow, an' yeh wait. If he bows back, yeh're allowed to touch him. If he doesn' bow, then get away from him sharpish, 'cause those talons hurt.
J.K. Rowling
#66. Have you ever noticed you can't get away from yourself? There is no way to get away from oneself. You're always there with you.
Geoff Herbach
#67. I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or funny I do it as much as I can get away with.
Johnny Depp
#68. You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.
William J. Clinton
#69. Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
Germaine Greer
#70. Yeah, phones are annoying. People expect you to be in constant contact even when you're trying to get away. It's like everywhere you are, you aren't just there; you have to be somewhere else electronically as well.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#71. The awful thing about being fat is you can't get away from it. Everywhere you go, there it is; all round you; hanging and swinging, yards and yards of it, under your arms, everywhere. And everyone else is so thin.
Charlotte Bingham
#72. I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.
Colin Firth
#73. I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
Parker Stevenson
#74. It would be fun to be a redhead ... you can get away with being, like, really volatile and fire-y because you're like, 'I'm just a redhead; what can I say?'
Anna Kendrick
#75. Fear does funny things to people. Shit, Dahmer was cooking and eating people in the middle of an apartment building. Imagine what you can get away with in a no man's land.
Greg F. Gifune
#76. One of our very favorite shows of 2008 was our Slowtrain instore. We drove straight from San Francisco, pulled up to the back of the store, dragged our entire setup inside and played our new album, Rook, start-to-finish - and they let us get away with it.
Jonathan Meiburg
#77. Too many people get away with truly awful 'reasoning', not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in the majority.
Ellie Rose McKee
#79. It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
Christian Marclay
#80. Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.
Billy Joel
#81. 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.
Zach Wamp
#82. For that pony had got tangled up in the cowboy's heartstrings a heap more than that cowboy wanted to let on, even to himself. He couldn't get away from how he missed him.
Will James
#83. When I'm not working, I love going to the beach. I am from Florida, so I definitely love the beach life. I love horse-back riding. Just to go out to a barn, it's fun. It's kind of like a get-away from the city. And also, I love animals.
Stefanie Scott
#84. I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.
David Gordon Green
#85. Never run from one such as me, female. You will no' get away - and we like it.
Kresley Cole
#86. People talk about being godlike, or godly... like those mean something. Like that means anything.
Like those are hard to do.
Being God is easy, just sit there and don't do anything.
I've always felt best when I could get away with being the Devil.
Justin Skrakowski
#87. The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
Oliver North
#88. People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason that people got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#89. Some music, it's meant just to make you dance and be able to celebrate and get away from all that kind of thinking. And so, I think it is important if you think your music can do that - to keep doin' it.
Jack Johnson
#90. I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing
righteous indignation.
Anzia Yezierska
#91. Perhaps more important, it also showed that you could get away with being a little dangerous, provocative, or just plain deep if you did it with a smile on your face and remembered that entertainment always came first. When done right, it's possible to be silly and subversive at the same time. F
Brian Jay Jones
#92. I was out on a lonely road that stretched forever into the darkness. I wanted to run, to get away from him, but it was so dark, I was afraid of where I was going.
Christina Dodd
#93. If you constantly have to play ombudsman for your beloved, you're in a co-dependent prison of your own making. People will keep doing what they can get away with.
Luvvie Ajayi
#94. Well, shoot, I don't believe in double standards, where men can get away with things that women can't. In God's eyes, there's no double standard.
Loretta Lynn
#95. Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
Marilyn Manson
#96. Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
Jack Gantos
#97. In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing.
Octavia E. Butler
#98. I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.
Michael Kirby
#99. I'm not going to let you get away from me until we decide if we're right for each other.
Dorothy Garlock
#100. 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.
Ville Valo
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