Best 127 quotes in «get away quotes» category

These days I live in a magical little village on Dartmoor in Devon, England, and my "special spot" is a moss-covered rock in a circle of trees in the woods behind my house. I often go into the woods, or walk through the fields and hills nearby, when I need inspiration, or to work out a plot problem, or come up with an idea. I think better on my feet, particularly when there is beautiful countryside around me and a dog at my side. When I was younger and lived in big cities, I had special places there too. There's magic everywhere, if you look.

Simon appeared at the doorway behind Tori and Derek. He waved to me and mouthed "run while you can." Not a bad idea. I snuck around them and zipped out the door to where Simon waited. Then I glanced back at Tori. "Don't worry about her," he said. "Probably the most fun she's had in days." He led me into the next room. "Sadly, I can't say the same for Derek, and as soon as he stops arguing long enough to notice you're gone—" "Hey!" Derek called. "Where are you two going?" Simon took my elbow and steered me at a jog through the house as Derek's footsteps pounded behind us.

Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don't know.

There're three reasons people get away from here: gone good, gone bad or gone dead.

A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.

A Clinton presidency is an Obama third term. And it's very difficult for them to get away from it.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.

Art is what you can get away with.

Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

Camp David is a wonderful place for the family to get away and run around and do goofy things.

Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.

Everywhere you turn, you see me in a movie, and I'm sorry. At this point, people must be saying, 'God, Biggs again? Can't we get away from this guy?'

For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.

Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.

He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Hey man! Get away from me!

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

I am speaking of something that is no longer happening - that is not currently going on. If someone is abusing you, or doing something illegal, or even something you refuse to tolerate, and it's still continuing, that is not an issue of forgiveness, that is an issue of making sure that stops - even if you have to get away from that situation - that's very important.

I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.

I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them.

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

If your hair is done properly you can get away with anything