Going Quotes

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Babies got it going on!

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.