#away

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#away #degree #disciplinary #drift #expansion

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#art #away #elemental #ephemeral #forbidden

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#avenue #away #came #done #drew

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#alone #author #away #being #enough

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#behind #down #electrical #fear #instance

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#business #buy #families #home #just

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could. ↗

— James Cromwell

#away #could #eat #fly #need

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. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#away #because #book #browns #bunch

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother. ↗

— Gail Devers

#after #always #away #games #i

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#believing #go #go away #i #reality