Goes On Quotes - Page 3

• I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, People, Wish

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• I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, World, Kind

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• Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

  Hugh Jackman

  Fathers Day, Dad, Sleep

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

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• Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

  Helen Mirren

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.

  Paul Lynde

  Couple, Glasses, Vegetables

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• I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

  Carl Lewis

  Taken, Athlete, Play

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• Firefighters don't go on strike.

  Denis Leary

  Firefighter, Strikes

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• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Travel, Airplane

  JEAN KERR (1960). “THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES”

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• I use a Bruce Lee technique: "The way of no way". He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

  Eddie Izzard

  Fighting, Thinking, Ideas

  "'I'm just a bloke talking crap'". Interview with Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Running, People, Creative

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• I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

  John Lydon

  Suffering, Wicked, Gigs

  "John Lydon: 'I'm fat, I'm 50 and I'm back'" by Olga Craig, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 1, 2008.

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• People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

  John Malkovich

  Funny, Life, People

  "Life and taxes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 09, 2006.

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• Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fame, Hours, Bad Things

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Long, Want, Outsiders

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• Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

  Allen Klein

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

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• I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, Thinking, Only Child

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• I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!

  Jay Kay

  Moon, Years, Weather

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Class, Feelings

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• I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

  Grace Jones

  Reality, Tvs, Dollars

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• One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Expanding Universe

  Letter to Georg Brandes, February 17, 1871.

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• When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Queens, Trying, Together

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• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Change, Fall

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr

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• I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

  Michael Moore

  Class, Guy, Midwest

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• I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.

  Colin Mochrie

  Thinking, Two, Challenges

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

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• It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Kids, Vacation

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