Quotes About Getting Away

#1. It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

Janet Evanovich

#2. I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

Sarah Sutton

#3. What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

Hans Zimmer

#4. I've been very fortunate. I'm doing what I love, and I'm getting away with it, you know?

Tony Bennett

#5. It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

Cilla Black

#6. Ragnor's important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus's stupid hair.

Cassandra Clare

#7. In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

Daniel H. Pink

#8. How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

Thomas Sowell

#9. You are not movin' onto another guy," he crossed his arms on his chest and finished, "Ever." "That choice is not yours." "Yeah it is," he returned swiftly. "You can't give away what's mine." "You aren't getting this, Chace, but just now, I took it back." "Can't take back what's mine either.

Kristen Ashley

#10. Mechanism! Everywhere
mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

John Galsworthy

#11. The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

Pema Chodron

#12. Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

Jim Rohn

#13. There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.

Joan Blondell

#14. Daemon parked as far away as he could, obviously more afraid of getting dings in Dolly's side then us being eaten by Bigfoot.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#15. Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.

Margaret Atwood

#16. I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

Benjamin Avila

#17. It wasn't the shooting that was hard, it was the getting away with it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Bluefur sighed. Now that he'd moved into the warriors' den, there would be no getting away from the conceited young tom. If Snowfur had to find a mate, why couldn't she pick a cat that Bluefur actually liked?

Erin Hunter

#19. Jack Sparrow: [after Will draws his sword] Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again.

Will Turner: You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you.

Jack Sparrow: That's not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it?

Jack Sparrow

#20. They fought like champions.
For a minute.
Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent.

Markus Zusak

#21. There's no getting away from the fact that, if ever a man required watching, it's Steggles. Machiavelli could have taken his correspondence course.

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. She breathes in the cold air; pellets of blown ice whip against her face. The wind's getting up, as the TV said it would. Nonetheless there's something brisk about being out in the storm, something energizing: it whisks away the cobwebs, it makes you inhale. The

Margaret Atwood

#23. So I drank every night after work, alone, up at my place and I had enough left for a day at the track on Saturday, and life was simple and without too much pain. Maybe without too much reason, but getting away from pain was reasonable enough.

Charles Bukowski

#24. If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.

Uday Kotak

#25. I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

Lea Salonga

#26. If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn't safe to put off what mattered. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back.

M.L. Stedman

#27. If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

Charles Kettering

#28. Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone.
- Gabrielle

Ally Carter

#29. My mind was getting away from reality again, and I reluctantly drew it back in. There is no getting away from reality.

David Levithan

#30. Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take.

Laura Vanderkam

#31. On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

John Ratzenberger

#32. Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#33. I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8, 2010 and the next day, my dad passed away, in June 9, 2010. So I'm at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day, June 9th, he's gone.

Russell Wilson

#34. I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?

David Sedaris

#35. I wanted to be understood. As a human-being, and as a writer. That meant getting to (truly) know myself- away from the opinions, beliefs, assumptions, criticism, and judgement of others. It meant re-learning language... to speak concisely. It meant learning the language of my heart and soul.

Cheri Bauer

#36. What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

Helena Bonham Carter

#37. Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay, they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away.

Arti Honrao

#38. There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.

Greg Bear

#39. KURT: ....no way in hell he's getting away with short changing you."
KERRY ANNE: But like you said, I don't need it so why?
KURT: Because it's rightfully yours sweetheart.

Jordan Silver

#40. Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring bankruptcy. Declaring bankruptcy means that getting a loan for anything will be next to impossible for the next 10 years.

Alexa Von Tobel

#41. All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting ... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there ... I think of it as my serious playground.

Laura Nyro

#42. Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

Paulo Coelho

#43. Usually they're carried away by people who are assertive and domineering. The risk with our students is that they're very good at getting their way. But that doesn't mean they're going the right way." If

Susan Cain

#44. After I told you that we were getting married, you told me that you were days away from being eighteen. That intensified my craving for you." "That makes you sound like a pedophile.

Jettie Woodruff

#45. I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Joseph Conrad

#46. It's not easy, getting old, feeling one's relevance slip away.

Kate Morton

#47. As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

Abhijit Naskar

#48. I love getting older," I muse as I carefully begin to peel the layers away. "You're closer to death, but there are presents.

Abby McDonald

#49. Damn. I'm getting fucked while practically standing on my head, and it's pretty superb.
I should be willing to walk away from my life just so I can have this done to me every day. It's definitely something to consider.

Georgia Cates

#50. In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

Phillip E. Johnson

#51. This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.

Simone Elkeles

#52. But that morning, standing at the window of my dorm roomas I buttoned my shirt, I felt like an entirely different person. It was as though someone had taken an eraser to my life and, instead of getting rid of the mess, had rubbed away all the parts that I'd wanted to keep.

Robyn Schneider

#53. This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.

Charles F. Haanel

#54. You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

Bill Vaughan

#55. I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

R.A. Salvatore

#56. Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

Hanna Rosin

#57. Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done.

Jason Fried

#58. I rather like getting away from fiction.

Penelope Lively

#59. I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self

Jane Austen

#60. Society is in this respect like a fire-the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#61. Traveling is a great love of mine. I love South America and Africa. I'm your ultimate backpacker when I'm away. It's just me and my backpack. It's good for getting away from the industry.

Matthew McConaughey

#62. There's no magic for getting into the groove ... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

Phil Collins

#63. And they all pretend they're Orphans
And their memory's like a train
You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away
And the things you can't remember
Tell the things you can't forget that
History puts a saint in every dream

Tom Waits

#64. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

#65. I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

Akshay Kumar

#66. He let go of my wrists and lifted me up against the wall. "Try fucking getting away from me now. Nice try, Tyler, but I told you that I always win.

Jaimie Roberts

#67. Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.

Frederick Lenz

#68. I feel like I was just one pair of insanely high heels away from getting propositioned on the street.

B.B. Hamel

#69. Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#70. The best method for getting away with something outrageous is to do it right in front of people, and then tell them they're not seeing what they think they're seeing.

Wodke Hawkinson

#71. Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

Simon Van Booy

#72. It's part of my game, getting to the free-throw line and being aggressive. If you say that I get superstar calls or I get babied by the refs, that's just taking away from how I play. That's disrespectful to me.

Kevin Durant

#73. I've always kind of pushed the envelope in terms of trying to get away with things no one else was going near. I always thought of myself like a mouse trying to get cheese that no one else could get without getting their tail snipped off.

Emo Philips

#74. For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.

Helena Bonham Carter

#75. Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic.

Paul Feig

#76. Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#77. Best way to get away from negative feelings and emotions is to involve ourselves without getting involved. It comes by practice and is beneficial for our health; be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.

Mahesh Babu

#78. It seemed to him that nothing would ever be explained, and that all of a sudden each day was slipping away, that time was flying by and they were getting old and nothing would ever come clear.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#79. Boxers are going away and not getting decisions and are losing, so it's not looking good for us, is it, as a nation? Thanks for pointing that out. It's put even more pressure on me now. I don't mind that at all. I love pressure.

Carl Froch

#80. THINGS TO DO THIS SUMMER
1. Make Father Mickey lose his black Irish temper.
2. Wear a turtleneck, take in a deep breath and get strangled.
3. Mary Lane takes the picture.
4. Practice getting away.
5. Sally puts the pedal to the metal.
6. Randa Rhonda Rendezvous

Lesley Kagen

#81. The mind that does inner intentions (bhaav-mann) is the 'charge' mind. The mind that is getting exhausted (dravya-mann) is the 'discharge' mind. Bhaav-mann creates the worldly life. Dravya-mann brings an end to the worldly life. When egoism goes away, bhaav-mann vanishes.

Dada Bhagwan

#82. Running away is pretty pathetic, but it's even worse getting caught.

Maureen Johnson

#83. Such a number of looking-glasses! oh Lord! there was no getting away from one's self.

Jane Austen

#84. The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

Ben Kingsley

#85. Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

Dai Vernon

#86. If you see a biker chick hanging out with a group of bikers and associated with them, stay away. You'll know right away if a biker chick is free; if she's with someone, she's right by his side. Getting with somebody's old lady is a big no-no. That's more serious than anything in that world.

Theo Rossi

#87. If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don't carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Phillip C. McGraw

#88. Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.

Erica Jong

#89. But she didn't pull away from him. If anything, she seemed to sort of melt against him. It was the
first time she'd willingly accepted something from him without getting stiff and defensive and
generally annoyed

Maisey Yates

#90. Killing someone was easy - getting away with it was what was truly challenging.

Jennifer Estep

#91. I wait for my dad to walk away before pulling back the covers and getting out of bed. Not exactly a Hallmark father-daughter moment.

Alecia Whitaker

#92. Of course you hate getting angry!" she retorted. "You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!

Diana Wynne Jones

#93. Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

Mike Judge

#94. Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do books'? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do Facebook'?

Leonard Sweet

#95. I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

Gaby Hoffmann

#96. In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!

Graham Norton

#97. The Doctor: I just don't like nastiness, and people getting away with it.
Churchwell: That sounds a rather, if you forgive me, innocent view.
The Doctor: That's as may be, but I'm sticking to it.

Paul Magrs

#98. Oh, you mean they're just people getting away early for the holidays to avoid the Rush?" said Maladict. "Sorry, I got confused. It must be that woman carrying a whole haystack we just passed.

Terry Pratchett

#99. When you are on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey.

Karlfried Graf Durckheim

#100. But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

Fyodor Dostoevsky