Quotes About Getting Away From Everything

#1. Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me.

Jesse McCartney

#2. It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.

Jack White

#3. Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.

Elena Ferrante

#4. Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Jacques Derrida

#5. If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

Tom Stoppard

#6. and let me remember that my courage is a wild dog; it won't just come when I call it, I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.

Ze Frank

#7. I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#8. When you're young your opponent is the future; but when you're not young, your opponent's the past and everything you've done in it and the problem of getting away from it.

Richard Ford

#9. Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it's a game played on the skin of a void, and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.

David Foster Wallace

#10. You find them [leftists] everywhere now. They have moved in and corrupted everything, and they've done it by intimidating anybody who might oppose them. They succeed in getting away with calling people racists.

Rush Limbaugh

#11. The sight of Theo's face, the warmth of his arms around me, make me feel as though everything should start getting better right away.

Claudia Gray

#12. I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

Hal Newhouser

#13. There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.

Alice Munro

#14. It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

Jessye Norman

#15. Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.

Leonard Lauder

#16. I love playing the bad guy getting away with stuff. I was that kid who learned from my older brothers who got away with everything by smiling.

Kellan Lutz

#17. The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Elsa Maxwell

#18. Shutting your heart away and letting bitterness and emptiness rule. Pretending that decay is to be celebrated, and ignoring everything that really matters. Don't you feel yourself disintegrating when you're around them? Feel as if you're getting sucked into their swamp of narcissism and hatred?

Lili Wilkinson

#19. Most people give up just before they reach their dreams. Most people quit only steps away from getting everything they wanted. Don't let that happen to you.

Robin S. Sharma

#20. Kidnappings made for ransom were fast and messy; guns pointed at your head, urgent demands. Not keypads on the door and enough food to last through one of George R.R. Martin's long winters.

Tarryn Fisher

#21. I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.

Dan Gable

#22. The key to success in every field is to hate failure in every way.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. Fine has many definitions, and not one of them means everything is okay.

Cindy Skaggs

#24. When I'm on with my putting, I'm as good a putter as there is, probably.

Mike Weir

#25. From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

Rain

#26. A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Thomas Carlyle

#27. Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

Bob Edwards

#28. Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

Manfred Gerstenfeld

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

Maria Montessori