Out Of The Quotes

#1. We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

William Eggleston

#2. I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

Erykah Badu

#3. Here we shall have to say simply that all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that inflation itself is merely a form, and a particularly vicious form, of taxation.

Henry Hazlitt

#4. Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.

Sojourner Truth

#5. When you're at a comedy club, if you're not funny, you don't work. People will let you know, whether it's by booing or yelling for you to get out of the club. People are drunk or whatever and they'll let you have it.

Brad Stine

#6. Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb

Valerie Plame

#7. And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

John Green

#8. Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

Elisabeth Elliot

#9. Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.

Pope Gregory XVI

#10. 'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

Gabrielle Reece

#11. I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

Eric Clapton

#12. In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

Edward Brooke

#13. There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

Ruben Blades

#14. A loud peel of laughter travels up my throat. Something out of the ordinary has finally happened, and it sends a spark of electricity directly to the dull lump in my chest.

Siobhan Davis

#15. When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

Eric Clapton

#16. Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

Martha Stout

#17. All of our children are prey. How do we raise them not to prey upon themselves and each other? And this is why we cannot be silent, because our silences will come to testify against us out of the mouths of our children.

Audre Lorde

#18. When instead of acting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

Allison Mackie

#20. 45I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God. 46They shall know that I am the LORD their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them; I am the LORD their God.

Anonymous

#21. It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

Jon Katz

#22. To remain silent is out of the question for a strong and honest man.

Erik Larson

#23. We invited that nice young man, Dave Brewer, who swindled all those people out of their houses, Grandma said, pulling a meatloaf out of the oven.

Janet Evanovich

#24. I'm out of the room in the next instant, like a man wanting breath, after suffocating through the horror of a burrito eating obese man's fart." - Emily Dolt

Nix Banner

#25. You own a flamethrower?"
"Would you believe they're legal in this state? Would you believe there are instructions for building your own that you can just take out of the public library?

Joshua Lewis

#26. Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform.

Brian Tracy

#27. To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.

Louisa May Alcott

#28. You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his brain one inch out of the concrete of dogma. (p. 5)

Jonathan Lethem

#29. If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

Billy Sunday

#30. Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

Barack Obama

#32. They were out of the Army and out of the experimental program that had failed. They were no longer soldiers. No longer whole. They were the walking wounded, each and every man. Mad Dog was the tip of spear. Time could not heal all wounds.

Cindy Skaggs

#33. She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.

Kristin Cashore

#34. If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place.

Leonard Jacobson

#35. I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.

Micah Lexier

#36. Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

Oscar Wilde

#37. The different human peoples did not evolve out of a common ancestor; they were each born out of the womb of their own homeland. We appeared in different parts of the world at the same time. Each group was as much a part of their environment as the other animals and plants of the region.

Eliot Cowan

#38. I decided I was going to make up a novel, and that the novel was going to get me out of the restaurant. The novel was going to be my getaway car.

Ann Patchett

#39. I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.

Paul Monette

#40. It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

Christine Lagarde

#41. It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

Alan Thicke

#42. People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#43. After all, the bible was always talking about miracles. i figured that if Daniel could get out of the lion's den alive and Jonah could come up unharmed from the belly of a whale, then surely ole T.j. could get out of going to prison.

Mildred D. Taylor

#44. Maybe she was the lucky one, I thought, a woman
who had divested herself of both future and past. No dreams, no
standards, a woman who smoked and drank and slept with men like
Sergei, men who were spiritually what came up out of the sewers when
it rained.

Janet Fitch

#45. 'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.

G. Willow Wilson

#46. The motivation I possessed to serve my country is what got me out of the small town of Lyons, Texas where I grew up, and into the world of service, love of country, helping others, and being an American soldier." (Page 90).

Kenneth A. Bracewell

#47. I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

Don Bluth

#48. I took my bike instead of the car so I wouldn't wake Mom. I remember it started to rain and then I saw headlights coming when I turned the corner. I tried to get out of the way, but it all just happened so fast I couldn't stop.

Apryl Baker

#49. Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it's not going anywhere for me. I don't want to have any self-pity.

Bucky Sinister

#50. And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

Maureen Dowd

#51. Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

Orison Swett Marden

#52. Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie.

Rick Riordan

#53. I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

Woodrow Wilson

#54. Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury - you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust.

Donald C. Peattie

#55. We don't know what to do with sadness. That's the problem. We want to put it out of the way and we can't.

Rachel Joyce

#56. The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

James Galway

#57. No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#58. It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

William Penn

#59. I waded out of the sea while loving it still, even as I had earlier dropped from the stars while loving them; and in truth there is no place in Briah that is not lovely when it no longer holds the threat of death, save for the places men have made so.

Gene Wolfe

#60. I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

Chuck Tanner

#61. Someone told me - maybe it was the ugly one, unafraid to bash his own kind - that spine surgeons are weak among surgeons, that you can't really fix a back so you go in there and fuck around and bill the shit out of the insurance company and refer the patient to pain management.

Merritt Tierce

#62. The cloth was wrinkled and twisted from the struggle. His forehead was damp, and he lay his forearm across it and stared across the room at the clock. Its pendulum rotated and gathered momentum only to slow and reverse its course. He watched it for a time and slid out of the bed to dress.

Dave Newell

#63. What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

Peter Straub

#64. Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they tell me to just get government out of the way and they'll create the jobs and grow on their own.

Diane Black

#65. It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#66. I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age.

George Wald

#67. Facts are now coming to light that show Muslims were not responsible for 9/11. A policy came out of the Pentagon to make war and to pit the Muslims against each other and rip up these "cells of terror."

Louis Farrakhan

#68. She saw Luke, standing atop a pile of bones. Jace with white feathered wings sprouting out of his back, Isabelle sitting naked with her whip curled around her like a net of gold rings, Simon with crosses burned into the palms of his hands. Angels, falling and burning. Falling out of the sky.

Cassandra Clare

#69. Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.

Jesse Kellerman

#70. If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

Jerry Coleman

#71. The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.

Wayne Dyer

#72. Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#73. There's been a growing effort to kick soda out of the schools. And governors as different as Arnold Schwarzenegger in California and Mike Huckabee in Arkansas have worked hard to get soda and junk food out of their state schools, which is good.

Eric Schlosser

#74. Holy shit! That's a vampire. He's writing a vampire novel. And I thought, this is the most tired cliche that anybody could dredge up out of the genre, and he just made it jump.

Peter Straub

#75. Iraq is sort of a situation where you've got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch, and that's not easy to do, although you probably should fire the driver.

Barack Obama

#76. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.

Eugene V. Debs

#77. It's here somewhere," I assured him.
"Please tell me you haven't lost it already."
"We did fall out of the sky, you know," I said indignantly. "It's easy for things to go missing.

Alexandra Adornetto

#78. There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

Aaron Rodgers

#79. When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

Robert Jordan

#80. I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

Ben Folds

#81. I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.

Harry Golden

#82. I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.

Ilona Andrews

#83. Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors.

Joshua Bell

#84. Dumbledore turned back to look out of the fiery window; the sun was now a ruby red glare along the horizon.

J.K. Rowling

#85. I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

Cynthia Nixon

#86. I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

Rupert Sanders

#87. During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#88. A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Thomas Browne

#89. A voice came out of the darkness.
'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself.

Robert Harris

#90. I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

Chris Hardwick

#91. There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

Daisy Berkowitz

#92. Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

Edmund Phelps

#93. I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.
[Woman's Day magazine, March 12, 2002]

Tracy Chevalier

#94. If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#95. Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#96. Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Leslie Feinberg

#97. My mom's voice filtered through my thoughts as I stopped in front of the Robert Byrd Science Building, out of the breath from racing up the steepest, most inconvenient hill in history.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#98. Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.

Darell Hammond

#99. Gadzooks! We've jumped out of the frying pan and into another frying pan!

Tony Millionaire

#100. Arthur narrowly avoided tripping over his own skirt as he hurried out of the ladies' powder room in full pursuit.

Graham Moore