Out Quotes

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".