Goes On Quotes - Page 7

• I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.

  Ed Sheeran

  Careers, Want, Evolve

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

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• I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look forward to getting up every day and doing something.

  Gene Simmons

  Vacation, People, Looks

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• I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

  Frank Sinatra

  Cat, Secret, Rat Pack

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• With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.

  Grace Slick

  Attitude, Mistake, Thinking

  Interview with Mary Campbell, articles.latimes.com. January 01, 1993.

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• Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there except by helicopter.

  Grace Slick

  Play, Weather, Waiting

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• It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.

  Robert Smith

  Nice, People, Listening

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• I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

  Wilbur Smith

  Beach, Hunting, Islands

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• Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Thinking, Islands

  "This much I know". Interview with Hilly Janes, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2003.

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• I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I'm just really bad at Facebook.

  Hope Solo

  Lots Of Friends, Havens, My Friends

  "Hope Solo Goes Hollywood and I'm Here to Grill Her". Interview with Ken Baker, www.eonline.com. August 5, 2011.

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• Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

  Kevin Spacey

  Secret, Want, Cry

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• I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Want Something, Care

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Perspective, Entrepreneur

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Dreams of Elsewhere”, p.162, Neil Wilson Publishing

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• My stylist has really great taste - Petra Flannery has really great taste. I mean, I am opinionated, and as time goes on, as I've gotten to see more dresses or more clothes, it's easier to say, 'I like that' or 'I don't like that,' but it's nothing I would ever, you know, design.

  Emma Stone

  Mean, Clothes, Design

  "Emma Stone Talks Comedy, ‘The Croods’ And Cameron Crowe; Scores Off The Charts On Likability". Interview with Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. February 24, 2013.

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• There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Kids, Age, Sidekicks

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• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Optimistic, The End Of The Day, Cockroaches

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• I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Dirty, Fighting

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• Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.

  James Surowiecki

  Horse, Race, Track

  "The Age of Political Risk". www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.

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• You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

  William Howard Taft

  Forever, President, Court

  "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft". Book by Henry F. Pringle, 1939.

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• The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

  Oliver Tambo

  Love, Country, Peace

  Letter From Dar Es-Salaam to E.S. Reddy, www.sahistory.org.za. January 17, 1967.

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• Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

  Dylan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Needs

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• We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

  Lewis Thomas

  Reality

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Funny, Humor, History

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• Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Health, Machines, Body

  War and Peace bk. 10, ch. 29 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude

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• When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

  Lee Trevino

  Yards, World, Poor

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