Leaving Quotes

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

Chen Guangcheng
- Home
- Free
- Chinese
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

Barbara Kingsolver
- People
- Funny
- Question

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

Martin Freeman
- People
- Alone
- Value
I never felt like I was in the grime scene…I was the outsider. So when I veered away from it, I didn’t feel like I was leaving the circle – I felt like I was never in it…No one paid me any attention…I had to do everything on my own.

AJ Tracey
- Attention
- Everything
- Own
I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.

Samantha Shannon
- Work
- School
- Year
I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'

Aunjanue Ellis
- Art
- Job
- Culture
A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

Jimmy Gomez
- People
- Crazy
- Leaving
For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

Christina Baker Kline
- Up
- She
- Mother