Carried Away Quotes - Page 5

• One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

  James Taylor

  Beautiful, Memories, Grandmother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

  Michael Sheen

  Thinking, Creative, Projects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

  Doris Lessing

  Falling In Love, Fall, Ideas

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• I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.

  Robert Pattinson

  Kissing, Walking Away, Nuts

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• I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

  Orson Scott Card

  Hate, Love You, Heart

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.307, Macmillan

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• Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

  Anne Bronte

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.98, Diversion Books

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• Each beat of your heart is a small miracle, you know, so don't get carried away.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Heart, Miracle, Beats

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• This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
  When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
  The practice is always to go back to oneself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Anger, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Going Home”, p.38, Random House

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• O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Wrinkles, Mirrors

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• “There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away. “There’s my Poochiekins!” Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me with his rough snout. “My lord Osiris!” Disturber lost the bottom of his scroll again, which unraveled around his legs. “This is an outrage!” “Sadie,” Dad said firmly, “please do not refer to the Devourer of Souls as Poochiekins.”

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Dad, Osiris

  "The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, May 2, 2012.

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• I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Should Have, Done

  "The Duke Ellington Reader".

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• If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

  Nhat Hanh

  Family, Community, Looks

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.

  Paula Poundstone

  Brother, Kids, Names

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• It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

  Phyllis Bottome

  Pain, Children, War

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.167, Northwestern University Press

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• There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.

  Herbert Spencer

  Envy, Generosity, Mountain

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• Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.

  Woody Allen

  Hey, Littles, Pay

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Finding Yourself, Mazes, Way

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

  Chief Joseph

  Gun, Powder, Bigs

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• Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Fun, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.56, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We need to be together." "Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard. "Because I want you." I gave him a sad smile, wondering if we'd meet again in the land of the dead. "Wrong answer," I told him. I let go

  Richelle Mead

  Letting Go, Wind, Land

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.223, Penguin

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• When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.

  Francesca Marciano

  People, Psychology, Relief

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• But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Children, Gone, Goblin

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Thinking, Should Have

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.334, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

  Damon Hill

  Athlete, Allowing

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• Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Talking, Class

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.174, Knopf

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