100+ Gone Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1853). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”, p.183

topic: Drawing, Steps, Gone, Geology, Gone Time

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

- Adam Weishaupt

topic: Nature, Men, Gone

The aura of uninvincibility has gone, if there is such a word.

- Adrian Chiles

topic: Gone, Auras

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Gone, Lasts, Remember

When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"

- Agnes Denes

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Gone, Sitting, Cafes

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

- Al Jarreau

topic: Long, Suffering, Gone

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

- Al-Ghazali

topic: Islamic, Jewels, Gone, Irreplaceable

Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I've no idea

- Alan Brazil

topic: Ideas, Gone, Please

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

- Alan Carr

topic: Funny, Teeth, Gone, Braces

There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Long, Choices, Gone

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.

- Alan Redpath

topic: Past, Purpose, Gone, Great Christian

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

- Alan Shepard

topic: Design, Together, Gone

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever....

- Alan Watts

topic: Inspiring, Forever, Gone

It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone

- Alane Ferguson

topic: Gone, World, Littles, Sad World

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Thinking, Gone, Way, Sneaking Up

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

- Alden Nowlan

topic: Writing, Thinking, Gone, American Writer

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

- Alessandro Nivola

topic: Gone, Film, Producers

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Numbers, People, Gone

It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone.

- Alex Gaskarth

topic: Echoes, Important, Gone

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: People, Twenties, Gone, Mcqueen

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Flower, Gone, Fruit

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

- Alexander Skarsgard

topic: Lunch, People, Gone

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

- Alexander Smith

source: Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

topic: Gone, Pleasure, Characteristics

Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?

- Alexandra Bracken

topic: Jobs, Poverty, Gone

... ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ...

- Alfonsina Storni

topic: Suicidal, Gone, Use

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

- Alice Childress

source: Alice Childress, Kathy A. Perkins (2011). “Selected Plays”, p.125, Northwestern University Press

topic: Heart, Soul, Gone, Good Souls

The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves, and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.

- Alice McDermott

source: "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". www.oprah.com. April, 2014.

topic: Memories, Echoes, Gone, Foibles

You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is...unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.

- Alice Neel

topic: Beautiful, Gone, Matter

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

- Alice Neel

topic: Gone

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

- Alice Sebold

source: The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)

topic: Lovely, Gone, World, Lovely Bones

I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.

- Alice Sebold

topic: Forever, Gone, Way, Kodak

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

- Alison Bechdel

topic: Life Changing, Home, Gone

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

- Ally Carter

topic: Gone

Hes gone. Hes just gone.

- Ally Carter

topic: Gone

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

- Alveda King

topic: Racism, Gone, Slavery, Plantations

Gone surfing. Be back soon. -D

- Alyson Noel

topic: Surfing, Gone

Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission.

- Alyson Noel

topic: Lap, Gone, Sitting

If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.

- Amanda Hocking

topic: Real, Mad, Gone, Been Real, Neverland

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

- Amar Bose

topic: Boston, Gone, Mit

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

- Amber Heard

topic: Gone, Rebellious, Standards, Standards Set

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

- Amy Hempel

topic: Beer, Car, Gone, Flexing, Boulevard

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

- Amy Hempel

topic: Loss, Gone, Lost

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

- Amy Lee

topic: Gone, Thumbs, Way

The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.

- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

source: Jyllands-Posten, June 25, 2007.

topic: Gone, Elements, Matter

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

- Anderson Cooper

source: Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Long, Adults, Gone

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

- Anderson Silva

topic: Victory, Gone, Bitter

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

topic: Years, Gone, Might

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

- Andy Goldsworthy

topic: Artist, Night, Gone

Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Time, Gone

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Art, Gone, Mystery

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

- Angel Haze

source: "Talking to Angel Haze". Interview with James C. Mckinley Jr., artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. October 24, 2012.

topic: Hip Hop, Gone, Hips, Redundant

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

- Angela Lansbury

topic: Gone, Actors, Desperate

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.

- Ann Aguirre

source: Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.167, Macmillan

topic: Eye, Winning, Gone

There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Caring, Quality, Gone

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.

- Ann Romney

source: "Ann Romney Had Health Scare In March". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

topic: Interesting, Gone, Today, Poor In Spirit, Here Today Gone Tomorrow

It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

- Ann Romney

topic: Gone, Today, Tomorrow

When I desire you a part of me is gone...

- Anne Carson

source: Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

topic: Desire, Gone

I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't.

- Anne Ellis

source: Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Thinking, Long, Gone

Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.

- Anne Holm

source: Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

topic: People, Sorrow, Gone

Somebody who should have been born is gone.

- Anne Sexton

topic: Abortion, Gone, Born

But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.

- Anne Ursu

source: Anne Ursu, Eric Fortune (2007). “The Shadow Thieves”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

topic: Space, Feelings, Gone, Charlotte, Punchlines

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

- Anoushka Shankar

source: Twitter post from Sep 05, 2013

topic: People, Gone, Stills

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

- Anthony Braxton

topic: Music, Gone, Jazz

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

- Anthony Doerr

topic: Rejection, Gone, Lucky, Instantaneous

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Magic, Mountain, Gone, Coasters

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Meaningful, Gone, Want

If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Gone, England, Accents

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

- Aphra Behn

source: 1686 The Lucky Chance, act 4.

topic: Death, Gone, Today, Here Today Gone Tomorrow

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

- Arne Jacobsen

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Quality, Steel, Gone, Status Symbol

My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: People, Attention, Gone, Austria, Mr Universe

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.

- Aron Ralston

source: "127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place". Book by Aron Ralston, September 7, 2004.

topic: Rocks, Hands, Gone, Circulation

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

- Aron Ralston

source: Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

topic: Gone, Limits

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Sorry, Gone, Feels

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

- Arthur Brisbane

topic: Opportunity, Rabbits, Gone, Great Opportunity, Snail

Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.

- Arthur Brisbane

topic: Life, Gone, Possibility

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

- Arthur Eddington

topic: Stars, Atheism, Gone, Stellar

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

- Arthur Erickson

topic: Artist, Gone, Modernism, Euphoric

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

- Arthur Scargill

topic: Party, People, Gone, Labour Party

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Character, Tragedy, Gone

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Thinking, Would Be, Gone

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

- Aryn Kyle

source: Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

topic: People, Missing, Gone

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.

- Ashly Lorenzana

topic: Dark, Light, Gone

Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Gone, Moments, Share, Difficult Moments

Take good care of yourself. Your life can be gone in a split second.

- August Alsina

source: "August Alsina Has Woken Up After Being In A Coma For Three Days". uproxx.com. September 19, 2014.

topic: Makeup, Gone, Care

Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Crazy, Kitchen, Gone, Ovens, Toothpaste

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

- Avi

source: Avi (2008). “The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant)”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Adventure, Gone, Thick And Thin, Through Thick And Thin

Don't turn around. 'Cuz you will get punched in the face. Don't make this worse. You've already gone and got me mad. It's too bad, I'm not sad It's casting over. Just one of those things you'll have to get over it.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Mad, Gone, Cuz, Already Gone

Because in a split second, it's gone.

- Ayrton Senna

topic: Gone, Splits

Have they defected? They have not gone yet.

- Bamanga Tukur

topic: Gone

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Ideas, Long, Gone, Gone Away

[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.

- Barbara Stanwyck

topic: Gone, Body

Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

topic: Unity, Gone, Moral

It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.

- Barry Long

source: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.19, Storey Publishing

topic: Truth, Mind, Gone

I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

- Bear Grylls

topic: People, Bravery, Gone

Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Mean, Hot, Gone

Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.

- Ben E. King

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

topic: Talking, People, Gone, Talking To Him

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

- Ben Fountain

source: Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.76, Canongate Books

topic: Long, Gone, Way

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

- Ben Stein

topic: Community, Gone, Causes

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

- Ben Stein

topic: Wind, America, Gone

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

- Ben Whishaw

topic: Workout, Gone, Regimes

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

- Bernard Goldberg

topic: News, Gone, Evening

Enjoy that you can see me now. I would love to see the great Michael Jordan and Julius Erving in their younger days, but they're gone. Look at me at 50, I'm going to eat right and live right so I can take less punches and look normal.

- Bernard Hopkins

topic: Work Out, Looks, Gone, Younger Days

My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.

- Beth Ditto

topic: Work Out, Goal, Gone

God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!

- Beth Moore

topic: Waiting, Gone, Faces

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

- Beth Nielsen Chapman

topic: Years, Water, Gone, Years Gone By

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

- Beyonce Knowles

topic: Gone, Painful, Painful Experiences

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

- Bijou Phillips

source: Interview with Bruce Labruce, www.indexmagazine.com. 2000.

topic: Writing, Decision, Gone

Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

- Bil Keane

topic: Tired, Simple, Gone, Getting Tired

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

- Bill Bradley

topic: Athlete, Games, Gone

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Mind, Too Late, Gone, Losing Your Mind

My goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down.

- Bill McLaren

topic: Snow, Balls, Gone

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

- Bill Moyers

topic: Commitment, Gone, Television

There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.

- Bill Watterson

topic: Voice, Different, Gone, Gatekeepers, Different Voices

We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram.

- Bill Whittle

topic: Moon, Gone, Instagram, Looking Down

The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

- Billie Jean King

topic: Responsibility, Important, Gone, Important Words

I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was about 20 and I did it again when I was about 30.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Gone, Way, Periods

I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Different, Hecklers, Gone

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

- Billy Idol

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

topic: Talking, Gone, Accents

Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be

- Billy Joel

topic: Gone, Goes On, Someday, Lullaby

We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.

- Billy Joel

topic: Forever, Insanity, Gone

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

- Billy Ocean

topic: Ego, Gone, Window

I think that there are few people in one's life that you never really feel that they're gone. I have to remind myself that she isn't around.

- Blake Edwards

topic: Thinking, People, Gone

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

- Bob Geldof

topic: Divorce, Nuclear, Gone

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

- Bob Seger

source: Song: Travelin' Man, Album: Beautiful Loser, 1975

topic: Wind, Sun, Gone

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

- Bobby Darin

topic: Turtles, House, Gone

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

- Bode Miller

topic: Racing, Gone, Skis, Wrong Direction, Ski Racing

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

- Bonnie Tyler

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, Gone, Always With You

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

- Booth Tarkington

source: Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.57, Booklassic

topic: Gone, Old Time

Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.

- Boyd K. Packer

topic: One Day, Pathways, Gone

My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere a little more local, but I wanted the academic challenges Wofford had to offer. It worked out pretty well for me obviously.

- Brenda Jackson

topic: Strong, Challenges, Gone

Parody is homage gone sour.

- Brendan Gill

source: BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

topic: Gone, Parody, Sour, Homage

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

- Brian Eno

topic: Culture, Gone, Band

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.

- Brian P. Cleary

topic: Book, Wind, Gone

I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

- Brian Setzer

topic: Tourists, Gone, Gears

Had not enough gone wrong?

- Brom

topic: Gone, Enough

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

- Bruce Babbitt

source: Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

topic: Unemployment, Gone, Acres, Unemployment Rate, Northwestern

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

- Bruce Dickinson

topic: Philosophy, Crazy, Gone, Gone Crazy

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

- Bruce Dickinson

topic: Iron, Long, Gone, Iron Maiden, Conflict Of Interest

It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.

- Bruce Forsyth

topic: Castles, Eric, Gone

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Decision, Forever, Gone

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

- Bruce Nauman

topic: Gone, Done, Sometimes

I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.

- Bruno Grandi

topic: Gymnastics, Gone, Eras, Steers

For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .

- Bruno of Cologne

topic: Men, Water, Gone

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Gone, World, Made, Insisting

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: White, Snow, Gone

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Gone, Temples, Found

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Gone

I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.

- Caitlin Thomas

topic: Grief, Broken, Gone, Divulge

I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

- Calvin Harris

topic: Gone, Breakfast, Buffets, Up And Down

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

- Cameron Dokey

source: Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

topic: Taken, Gone, Given

I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.

- Cara Castronuova

topic: Fighting, Gone, Care

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Freedom, Men, Gone

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Gone, Extinction, Saws

The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

- Carlo Levi

source: Carlo Levi (2008). “Fear of Freedom: With the Essay, "Fear of Painting"”, p.30, Columbia University Press

topic: Evil, Soul, Gone

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

- Carly Simon

topic: Years, Different, Gone, Artistry

I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.

- Carol Plum-Ucci

source: Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.316, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Wish, Gone

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

- Carolina Maria de Jesus

source: Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

topic: Children, Thinking, Gone

For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balmâ€” Not lost but gone before.

- Caroline Norton

source: "Not Lost but Gone Before" (ca. 1850). Burton E. Stevenson, Home Book of Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations trace "Not lost, but gone before" and similar expressions to Seneca, St. Cyprian, and Matthew Henry.

topic: Life And Death, Gone, World

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

- Cathleen Schine

topic: Mean, Gone, Letters, All That Remains

The Past Is Gone, And Cannot Harm You Any More & While The Future Is Fast Coming For You, It Always Flinches First. And Settles In As The Gentle Present.

- Cecil Palmer

topic: Past, Firsts, Gone

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

- Cesar Romero

topic: Play, Gone, May

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

- Cesar Romero