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Away Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything…
- He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he…
- So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms,…
- I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if…
- Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.
- Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius