Going Quotes

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

I have to tell everyone everything that's going on. It is different once you're married, because that's sacred.

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.