Away Quotes

In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do nothing. They don't give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.

I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there's a routine going on that I'm not a part of, so that can be difficult.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera.

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.