Goes Quotes

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.

Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.