Sayings About Being Away

#1. When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

Paulo Coelho

#2. I missed you so fucking much, baby," he told her between placing frantic open- mouth kisses down her jawline and neck. "Every day. Every second of every day I missed you. It hurt like hell being away from you. It nearly wrecked me ... having to see you and not being able to have you.

Caisey Quinn

#3. The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.

Mike Trout

#4. I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

Aleksandar Hemon

#5. When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.

Saoirse Ronan

#6. We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.

Hafez Ibrahim

#7. I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.

Jane Powell

#8. I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Bob Mould

#9. If being in love made a person mad, then being away from the one you loved made you a lunatic.

Nicole Williams

#10. There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

Jiah Khan

#11. The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

Imtiaz Ali

#12. I think bravery is a lot less formal than it sounds. Bravery is being able to have a conversation with a stranger. It's going back to school even after years of being away. It's being you even when it's easier to be someone else.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#13. I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

David Burnett

#14. I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.

Michelle Branch

#15. As much as we love being sociable on holiday, part of me craves the idea of being away, staying in a hut on the beach, and maybe not seeing anyone for days apart from Jamie and the boys.

Louise Nurding

#16. Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.

Greg Norman

#17. Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

Jackie Kennedy

#18. All I know is, being away from you ... makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much

Samantha Towle

#19. That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

Erik Paulsen

#20. Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast.

Richard Dean Anderson

#21. It's been tough for me being away from the game.

Saku Koivu

#22. Kids need quantity time: the myth that a small amount of focused attention is just as good simply because it's labeled quality is merely a means to rationalize being away.

Diane Medved

#23. The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

Bear Grylls

#24. I hate being away even for a day. But I'm happiest when I'm working and have my own things going on, so it ultimately makes me a better mother and wife.

Kristin Cavallari

#25. I throw myself into him, letting him fill the empty hollow places being away from him. I'm already wrapped around him, but I push closer. He tightens his hold on me. Honestly, if I could fit myself into his skin and rest in-between his bones, right now, I would.

Samantha Towle

#26. Her soul was soothed by his presence,
Her mind was soothed by his beliefs
Her heart was soothed by his love
And for the first time, she could see a future with someone who grabbed her by the hand and took her courageous being away from all that had her questioning life.

Nikki Rowe

#27. But how can I let him just walk away with a smile on my face and a slap on his back when every cell in my body is tied painfully to him, and I can't breathe when I think of him being away from me?!

Llarjme

#28. What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.

R.M. Engelhardt

#29. You're mine right now, Shea," he gruffly uttered. "You don't get to think about being away from me, not yet.

Sibylla Matilde

#30. The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.

Melanie Chisholm

#31. I had found out in that glittering corridor off the ballroom that being with him could be more painful than being away from him.

Dodie Smith

#32. Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.

Jackie Kennedy

#33. I've got a pretty wide range of stuff that I'm interested in in life. But producing ... it gives me a lot more time at home to spend with my family as opposed to being away on location shooting nights for months at a time.

Mark Wahlberg

#34. On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#35. When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?

Trent Reznor

#36. One day, I'll take a holiday and manage to do no work on it at all and just enjoy being away - however that won't be for some time.

C.S. Woolley

#37. You're important to me ... I don't like being away from you. And sometimes ... you make me want to smile.

Suzanne Wright

#38. Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

Roy Clark

#39. Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22:;: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.

Warren Farrell

#40. When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

Mark Ruffalo

#41. No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

Roger Glover

#42. It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.

Martina Mcbride

#43. Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

Jami Gertz

#44. My soul needs him as much as my lungs need air. So much so that I feel like I'm suffocating just being away from him.

J.B. McGee

#45. And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

Jackie DeShannon

#46. The selfish part of me, however, couldn't fathom not falling asleep in his arms or being with him every day. I needed TJ, and the thought of being away from him bothered me more than I wanted to admit.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#47. I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.

Henry Rollins

#48. It definitely can be really hard being away from friends and family for so long. People expect you to be different when you come back. But I love it, I love coming home. I really want to start coming back here more often ? its so fun.

Hayley Williams

#49. I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

Zadie Smith

#50. I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

Jens Voigt

#51. Returning to my dreams was like returning to home after a long time of being away - everything was exactly the same as you left it, except infinitely better.

Aishabella Sheikh

#52. I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.

Geraldine Brooks

#53. I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

Jamaica Kincaid

#54. The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

James Daly

#55. I didn't believe it was happening. But it was.
Just being here, being away, it was all so much easier in a way I didn't anticipate. In a way I didn't
think my life could be anymore. It was a huge relief.

Gayle Forman

#56. I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

Bradley Cooper

#57. I can function without you. But I don't like being away from you. It feels like you take my home with you when you go.

Christina Lauren

#58. I just refuse to date actors. I've done that, and I don't want to do that anymore. It's just the stress of traveling and being away from each other so much.

Lea Salonga

#59. I'll never let you go again,Melanie.Never.Nothing will come between us ... nothing.
I would destroy anything,and anyone who tried to take her from me.
Being away from her was no longer an option.
She was mine.Only mine.

A.L. Jackson

#60. I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

Clarke Peters

#61. That's where faith comes in. I've struggled more with being away from her. She keeps me strong. Being away from her means I have to stay in the Word and to stay strong throughout the season.

Jrue Holiday

#62. It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.

Max Von Sydow

#63. When I get home after being away for work, my wife always stuffs the fridge with loads of what she calls 'nibbles' - all the great things you can eat straight from the fridge, like chunks of cheese, slices of ham, bowls of hummus.

Alfred Molina

#64. My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

Natalie Dormer

#65. Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in.

Walter Dean Myers

#66. Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home.

Nicole Ari Parker

#67. It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

Alicia Sacramone

#68. Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.

Yasmin Mogahed

#69. Nothing like the pure, unpolluted air we get to breathe in these mountains, and nothing like being away from cities.

Preeti Shenoy

#70. I love what I'm doing here but I hate being away from home. I hate it. I look forward to one day raising a family myself, and I really look forward to children but when that day comes, I don't want to be an absent dad. I'm already an absent husband.

Chuck Ragan

#71. Just the sight of him brought back everything that was good and homelike to her mind. It was like coming back to her own room after being away a long time with strangers.
It was where she belonged.

L.J.Smith

#72. Ifemelu was looking forward to being away from home, to the independence of owning her own time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#73. Loving someone is something you can do from afar, admiring someone and appreciationg their existence in your life - but in love's different. It's all-cosnuming to the point where being away from taht person seems unbearable. There's no stopping that feeling... ~ Ben

Giovanna Fletcher

#74. Odd how being away could teach you about home.

Cathy Pickens

#75. When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

Rob Brydon

#76. I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

Roberto Clemente

#77. What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

Michael Vick

#78. The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#79. Yeah," he said, eyelashes lowering as his gaze traced the movement of her fingers. "It hurt me being away from you. It feels like there's a hook dug in under my ribs, and there's something pulling at the other end. Like I'm tethered to you, no matter the distance.

Cassandra Clare

#80. I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

Dave Grohl

#81. Hmmmm ... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different.

Grandmaster Flash

#82. amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.

Elizabeth Noble

#83. I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I've played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also.

Michel Martelly

#84. And just like that he took me away into another world. A place where I was cherished, and where I could forget about a time when I never dared to dream about being loved like this.

Raine Miller

#85. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

Stephen Richards

#86. Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours ... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.

Jerry Pournelle

#87. The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

Tony Kushner

#88. After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.

Victor Garber

#89. Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

Brian May

#90. She turned and walked away, and Thomas sat there, hoping his face hadn't flushed bright red when he remembered her being close to him in the Underneath.

James Dashner

#91. A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ.

Paul Washer

#92. I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.

Stieg Larsson

#93. I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

Adam Duritz

#94. It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

Pam Brown

#95. You are more capable of being loved than you understand. And - Celeste, this is important - you nurture and love and protect more than anyone I have known. Or could know. Don't take that away from me. From us.

Jessica Park

#96. To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.'

Henry Giroux

#97. Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

Ashlee Simpson

#98. Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument
that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'
makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.

Michael Ignatieff

#99. Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

Alexis Ohanian

#100. AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.

David Bennun