#leaving

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#arrive #early #i #i always #late

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#build #comes #commons #core #fit

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago. ↗

— Bill Lipinski

#chicago #i #leaving #more #spend

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#behind #crawl #edifice #his #i

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline. ↗

— James Merrill

#better #cup #free #gasoline #get

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#always #argentina #changed #did #dream

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#around #catalyst #certain #change #i

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#finding #girlfriend #leaving #like #losing

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#belonged #considered #countries #drove #effect

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#any #end #i #leaving #me