Top 100 I Walked Away Quotes
#1. I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
Mark Spitz
#2. I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.
Anthony Kiedis
#3. Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.
Rick Moranis
#4. Last year, Yoshino,
I walked away bending branches
To point me to blossoms
Which now are everywhere and I can
Go where I've never been before.
Saigyo
#5. When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't using my skills productively. I gave up photography - I walked away from it completely - and started doing care work.
Giles Duley
#6. I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.
Charlize Theron
#7. 'High School Musical' is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.
Monique Coleman
#8. Took Amanda's hand. "Sisters," she repeated. "I walked away from you years ago. I'll be damned if I let you stand alone today.
Courtney Milan
#9. And I just walked away. Again and again, I walked away as her world fell down around her. As they destroyed her. We destroyed her.
Chelsea Pitcher
#10. I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.
Billy Corgan
#11. Warren returns from his room and sits back down at the table.
"I walked away for dramatic effect," he says. "I wasn't finished eating yet.
Colleen Hoover
#12. Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.
Richelle Mead
#13. Since I knew wrestling was all choreographed, I thought, Oh, they don't get hurt at all. But I walked away with a renewed respect for the sport. Because I was very ignorant before - I knew nothing about it.
Mickey Rourke
#14. I used to go into every fight not giving a damn if I walked away from it. Dying didn't mean shit.
Kit Rocha
#15. The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.
Danny Aiello
#16. I walked away for dramatic effect," he says. "I wasn't finished eating.
Colleen Hoover
#17. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#18. I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.
Lisa Loeb
#19. I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.
Mel Gibson
#20. I walked away from everybody I knew. I locked myself in a loft that I rented, like I told you, where I was rolling quarters for cigarettes. I was having to borrow money off of the rent guy ... the real estate agent that was renting me the loft.
Shane Bunting
#21. If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.
Jack Johnson
#22. I walked away, hoping my words would linger after me. The game was over, and they couldn't be left doubting that.
Kiera Cass
#23. Eli had shone a light into my world, he'd lit up the dark corners just by existing and even if I walked away now, I knew I'd ache for him.
E.M. Denning
#24. And the farther I walked away, the more upset I got, at the loss of one of the few stable and unchanging docking-points in the world that I'd taken for granted: familiar faces, glad greetings ...
Donna Tartt
#25. I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great.
Kevin Johnson
#26. I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.
Marilyn Manson
#27. I swore to myself that if I ever got to walk around the room as manager, people would laugh when they saw me coming, and would applaud as I walked away.
Michael Scott
#28. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'
Jeff Ament
#29. He reached out and grasped her arm. Please don't walk away from me again. I know I hurt you the night you told me you loved me and I walked away, but Gabrielle, you've walked away from me twice now.
Rachel Gibson
#30. The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#32. Don't do anything stupid." I just smirked as I walked away. All that we had left were stupid choices.
Anonymous
#33. The Tudors") "I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!
Natalie Dormer
#34. As I walked away, I heard Kale tell Fin to stop staring at my ass or he was going to punish him. I couldn't help but smile.
Jus Accardo
#35. I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.
Jonathan Jackson
#36. Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.
Marvin Hagler
#37. The world crashed on me. I smiled like an idiot as I stood up and rushed away hoping he'd forget we had ever spoken. I walked away from the Company and Sonia, but mostly from Giovanni. I had finally met an awesome guy who did not look like a thug and he was four years older than me?
Gaia B. Amman
#38. To be a true poet is to become God.
I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!'
They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.
Dan Simmons
#39. I have always been a fire, and everyone I loved walked away as ashes, until I met a phoenix who was born to love flames.
Jenim Dibie
#40. You would do the same for me. He smiled a big toothy smile before he hopped off my car and walked away, leaving me wondering what was up with the guy in the girl jeans and why I couldn't get him off of my mind.
Magan Vernon
#41. All you did was haul me into the light. I could've walked away at any point. I chose to stay. I will always choose to stay.
Nalini Singh
#42. I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.
Elliott Smith
#43. Everything has beauty," she said, "but not everyone sees it." Her stomach hurt, her eyes burned. "I saw you, Hatter." Her words whispered through the night. "I saw you." She walked away.
Marie Hall
#44. Above all, do not loose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#45. At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#46. I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.
Tom Shadyac
#47. Travis watched me pull hair away from my face and then walked to the door, holding it open.
'I wouldn't let anything happen to you, Pigeon.
Jamie McGuire
#48. I'm sorry I bothered you, Susan. I'm just having a tough time. That's all. Have a good one," I said and walked away.
Stephen Chbosky
#49. He turned and walked across the floor and out. I watched the door close. I listened to his steps going away down the imitation marble corridor. After a while they got faint, then they got silent. I kept on listening anyway.
Raymond Chandler
#50. What was I to you? he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything.
Donna Lynn Hope
#51. Thank you," I said with pride, tucking the money away in my bra.
"You are incredibly sexy right now," Travis said in my ear as we walked to the living room.
Jamie McGuire
#52. You have to understand for my whole life I have been romanticized by this other side of the fence. This whole darker, egotistically, sort of mean world. I fully embraced that world and three or four years ago I completely walked away from that world, literally.
Shane Bunting
#53. Having a plan made me feel better,so when I walked into my room to find Jack sitting on my bed flipping through my pink journal,I didn't even yell at him.
Much.
Once I finished smacking him over the head with said journal,I put away my school stuff and pulled on a warmer coat.
Kiersten White
#54. The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
Ted Kulongoski
#55. I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.
Jane Gardam
#56. Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what make it perfect.
Trisha Leaver
#57. A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist.
"Hi," she said.
"Hi."
"You're really cute."
"I don't have any money."
She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.
Harlan Coben
#58. You've both quit your jobs for me," Laura said, though a little of the sass had left her voice.
"I never liked it much anyway," Cam said flippantly. "I was only there for the nookie, and when you walked away, that dried up.
Sophie Oak
#59. This is the way I've always been. I think of the answer long after the person asking the question has lost interest and walked away.
Jael McHenry
#60. The setting sun threatened to consume me - it could have, you know. It would have been a beautiful death with an honorable eulogy: slain by a magnificent slice of piercing orange energy. I simply turned and walked away; I would live another day.
Chila Woychik
#61. He gave me a tight, triumphant smile and walked away.
My anger got the best of me. "You're an immature idiot!"
"I could give a fuck, Shortcake," he threw back at me. "And you started it.
Samantha Young
#62. I suspicion there are a few things ye try hard to keep under control." "Och, aye. I dinnae purr. Tis too cursed unmonly," he drawled as he walked away. Cathal laughed and continued on his way to collect his wife.
Hannah Howell
#63. I'll thank you now, Kathel, Keirah whispered. Placing a simple, soft kiss on Kathel's lips, she turned and walked away toward her cabin, leaving both men stunned in her wake.
Madison Thorne Grey
#64. I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.
Sophia Bush
#65. The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is. You have to really take some shots, and I've walked away with some bumps and bruises.
Chris Pratt
#66. In truth, I had not yet learned how to hate anyone but my parents. I was actually just standing there in love. I was not even really standing; if she had walked away suddenly, I would have fallen.
Miranda July
#67. This is so cool," I said loudly as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?" "He's a she," Mom said. "Is she hot? Cause I'm still young, you know. My sexual identity isnt fully formed." "Your father can't hear you anymore, Maya." Mom sighed.
Kelley Armstrong
#68. I expect you to vanish
up and up into the tree,
a shake of the branches
and gone like you
had never happened.
But you came down
and handed me a leaf
"from seven limbs up,
already yellow," you said,
and then you walked away
and you were still real.
Karen Finneyfrock
#69. I smiled back as he walked away, but all the lovely butterflies in my stomach landed one by one in a cold, dead heap.
Myra McEntire
#70. I thought you were gone forever, I thought you'd walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn't.
Alexandra Adornetto
#71. The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.
Bob Uecker
#72. It's my fault. I'm the one who walked away last year when you tried to love me.
Colleen Hoover
#73. I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.
Alex Honnold
#74. My conception of New York City came from rap music. I envisioned it as a place where people shot each other on the street and got away with it; no one walked on the streets, rather people drove in their sports cars looking for nightclubs and for violence.
Ishmael Beah
#75. When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.
Scott Stapp
#76. I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.
Sean Combs
#77. I mean, I'm not going to spare your feelings, Dad - I wanted to be his frickin' chocolate bunny today, but, really he popped a couple of jelly beans and said, 'This isn't right' and walked away. I mean, I think he was starving for chocolate bunny - but he walked away. Who does that?
Amy Lane
#78. We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are.
Noah Hathaway
#79. As
calmly as she could, she turned away from the cop who was interviewing her and walked toward him.
He grabbed her fast enough, hard enough to knock the breath out of her. Nothing had ever felt so
safe. "I was hoping you'd come. I was really hoping."
"Did you get banged up any?
Nora Roberts
#80. It looks as though it hurt."
"It did."
"Did you cry?"
His fists clenched involuntarily at his sides. "Yes!"
Jenny walked back around to face him, pointed chin lifted and slanted eyes wide and bright. "So did I," she said softly. "Every day since they took ye away.
Diana Gabaldon
#81. Wow," Clay said. "Never thought I'd see the day a woman walked away from you. And in the middle of a the desert." He cracked up and pulled his cell phone from his pocket. "I'm definitely tweeting this.
Robin Bielman
#82. We got some shit to figure out, Izzy ... but after this, I won't let you go until we figure it out. Not happening. Do you feel it? Every single thing we ever felt for each other, it is still there Izzy and I won't let you push me away. We walked back into each other's lives for a reason.
Harper Sloan
#83. She walks away as if she were going to disappear. I wonder if I'll ever see her again.
I turned and saw her yellow blouse receding into the distance as she walked along the busy street. She looked like a balloon someone had let loose in the sky. We watched her go.
Banana Yoshimoto
#84. I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
Nancy Pelosi
#85. Five minutes, I said, and walked away, but my heart was still going just as fast as before. This was only half over. Was it five minutes until I pulled this off? Or five minutes to live?
James Patterson
#86. I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.
Howard Schultz
#87. [Keenan] 'What am I going to do?' He sank to the floor.
[Donia] 'Hope that some of us are kinder to you than you've been to us,' she whispered. Then, before she could soften again, she walked away and left the Summer King kneeling in her foyer.
Melissa Marr
#88. As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away ... I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
Tom Shadyac
#89. I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
Hannah Gadsby
#90. I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before,
Hadiqa Kiani
#91. Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up.
"I've always wondered about his name," said Nobby, turning and waving. "I mean ... Legitimate?"
"Can't blame a mother for being proud, Nobby," said Colon.
Terry Pratchett
#92. Take a table and I'll join you in a second.'
When he walked away I did something I couldn't be scolded for doing.
I checked out his ass in his jeans and ... that looked good.
Stephanie Witter
#93. I Should've walked away. Now, it's too late. It's too fucking late for both of us.
Lara Adrian
#94. For so long I'd thought about myself as a girl who'd walked away from her mother's life that it would be a long time before I would start to think about the other part of the bargain, how easily she'd let me go.
Anna Quindlen
#95. I turned and walked away then shook my head when Alec chose to walk behind me instead of beside me.
"Don't shake your head, if he wants an ass to stare at he will have to make do with mine.
L.A. Casey
#96. This is so cool," I said as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?
"He's a she," Mom said.
"Is she hot? Cause I'm still young, you know. My sexual identity isn't fully formed.
Kelley Armstrong
#97. Most girls swoon when I talk to them. So quit ignoring me."
"So go talk to them," Kara slammed her locked shut and walked away.
Alexis Tiger
#98. No, you were certainly not trying to seduce me, more like trying to wound my ego, break my heart, I dunno. Did you like how you felt when you walked away? Do you prefer that emotion to this?
J.B. McGee
#99. We gotta get out of here before I set up a tent in here and never leave. You don't know how many guys I saw with tattoos and One Direction hair as I walked in here. Trouble. They are all trouble. Stay away Claire!
Toni Aleo
#100. Excuse him, he doesn't Target much," I said with a smile. The woman laughed and walked away.
Claire Contreras
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