Going Quotes
31598 Going quotes by 12355 unique authors
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Because of our situation, God has given us an opportunity to almost transcend our gender, which gives us a vision and sensitivity that other people…
— Unknown Author
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The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.
— Unknown Author
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the…
— William James
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When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly,…
— Margaret Haddix
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I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time
— Doris Day
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You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.
— Bill Budge
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los…
— Mackenzie Astin
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Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it.…
— John F. Kennedy
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I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as…
— Lewis Carroll
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You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.
— Will Smith
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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death…
— Charles Dickens
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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what…
— Charles Dickens
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Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
— Florence Nightingale
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I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how to write a…
— Andy Wilkinson
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Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or…
— Andy Wilkinson
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Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing…
— Dan Bern
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Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.
— Feist
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Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story,…
— Paul Simon
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Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they…
— Paul Simon
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely…
— Jimmy Webb
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For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to write a song…
— Unknown Author
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Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen to you, then…
— Patterson Hood
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I don't know exactly where the ideas come from, but when I get into a songwriting mode and it's coming along, it's like you're on…
— Robert Earl Keen
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When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final…
— Augusten Burroughs
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