“When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a movie that captures the stuff that goes on.” ThinkingStoriesSchoolStuffHeardGoes OnFormerCaptureRoommateHazing Author:Nick Jonas
“I missed Breaking Bad and people just go on and on about it until you're blue in the face with envy and you've got to watch it.” PeopleFacesWatchesGoes OnBlueEnvy Author:Rhys Darby
“In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage.” StageGoes OnScaredSeventies Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?” HandsForeverRocksStageArmsGoes OnBedYeahClockCandleRock N RollNightcap Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do. I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking. If I'm going to do this, sacrifice time with family and friends, sacrifice resources, I need to think carefully about what I going to say and how I'm going to say it.” IfsThinkingNeedsTwoCharacterFightingAsksAnimalSacrificeIdentitySonHugeGoes OnDadHusbandResourcesThirdsPursueAsk MeMy SonFamily And Friends Author:Ben Sollee
“Don't take life so seriously. Have fun. Enjoy your time on this planet. Try new things, go on adventures, and appreciate every little thing because it may not be as little as you might think.” ThinkingTryingMayLittlesMightFunEnjoyPlanetsAdventureGoes OnAppreciateHaving FunLittle ThingsNew Things Author:Haley Pullos
“I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.” PeopleWantNeedsWholeFacesStuffProcessSoundHoursFiveMinutesFineGoes OnPainfulEightYour FaceTapeAwkwardCastingFive MinutesAdjustmentDraining Author:Mike Judge
“It's like you can't even go on the radio anymore and condemn a whole subset of people to hell without getting some blowback.” PeopleWholeHellLike YouGoes OnRadio Author:Samantha Bee
“So you can be about your business, and then on it comes again. And this time you're ready, and you've got a wine glass or something. And you put the glass up to the wall, and you can hear through the wall a little bit more of the song - maybe just the middle bit this time. You know, you managed to get in a little bit of the end. And so it goes on until - because you just got to - you really just want to sing it.” KnowsWantLittlesEndsSongBitsMiddleReadyWallGoes OnLittle BitWineGlassesWine Glass Author:Nick Lowe
“You want to sing this song. And so it goes on until eventually, after - well, however long it can take - sometimes a few days, sometimes months - you piece the whole thing together.” WantWellsLongSometimesWholeTogetherSongPiecesMonthsGoes On Author:Nick Lowe
“It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.” YearsFirstsBookBigsFatherGamesHouseDifficultWhiteInterestingChildhoodGoes OnHonorLettersRedemptionWhite HouseHuntingPublishingPublishFirst LadyEleanorReconnecting Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American's entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again - '33, '35. In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.” WorldWritingFirstsFactsThreeSupportFourAirPositionGoes OnRelationCourtInternationalCome UpAgain And AgainShockingFilesFbiColumnsInternational RelationsEntryEntrancesEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“The job is exactly the same, it just goes on for longer on TV. Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days. This has 10 parts, with different directors for each block. We shoot with two, sometimes three cameras.” TwoDifferentSometimesJobsFilmThreeTvsGoes OnDirectorsCamerasBlockShootingFeatures Author:Charles Dance
“And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.” MayDoeMomentsCharacterWould BeGuyBitsEnjoyPresidentMiddleFiguresGoes OnHeroToughSuicideInstanceBridgesHuntingReformersExpeditionsLarger Than LifeTough GuyCommitting SuicideJumpersErdoganBosphorus Author:Peter Kenyon
“To picture Roosevelt as a man at this time in his life - he felt he was old. He was 53 years old, feeling lonely and irrelevant. And all of a sudden, he takes on this campaign, and it becomes a crusade for popular government. And he ultimately goes on fire in the campaign, but he discovers he's up against all the old machine tactics that he used to use himself, and he has to let the public get involved. And he energizes the public through the most extreme kind of rhetoric, which truly brings him into the streets and onto his side.” MenYearsKindUseFeelingsGovernmentUsedFeltSidesFireStreetsGoes OnInvolvedLonelyMachinesExtremesCampaignsRhetoricIrrelevantTacticsGet InvolvedFeeling LonelyCrusadesOld Feelings Author:Geoffrey Cowan
“Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.” IfsGivingDreamBigsGoalGoes OnHigherAccomplishOverwhelmedSetting GoalsSmall DreamsHigher GoalsSmall Goals Author:John H. Johnson
“Whenever I go on vacation I like to change up my hair - I'll braid it or get dreads - but my favorite is just keeping it short and curly.” HairGoes OnMy FavoriteVacationDreadBraids Author:Herieth Paul
“As a guitarist and a lot of the times as a singer, I don't feel that comfortable and you really feel that when there's not an electric guitar or a nice beat to back it up. But, I enjoy challenges as a rule. I have always felt that what doesn't kill you, will make you stronger. I have learned to love with the rawness a little bit more and I know what I need to work on a little bit more as the tour goes on.” KnowsNeedsFeelsLittlesFeltBitsEnjoyChallengesNiceGoes OnComfortableLittle BitBeatsStrongerGuitarSingersElectricI Have LearnedGuitaristMakes You StrongerElectric GuitarRawness Author:Stephen Kellogg
“The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.” PeopleThinkingWantHurtGoes OnBlissAfterlife Author:Charlie Benante
“When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.” WritingRealSongInspireGoes OnReal Life Author:Nina Nesbitt
“I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.” ThinkingUseSoundInterestStageGoes OnComputerToolsInstrumentsFasterComposingGoofy Author:Glenn Branca
“The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.” PeopleWritingSeemsReadingNovelSubjectsPossibilityStrangeGoes OnAgreeThese DaysTireFractionsStrange ThingsVery Deep Author:Teju Cole
“I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.” PeopleKnowsWorldAmericaEnjoyDealsGoes OnLuckyEvidenceGet BetterHopefulLife Goes On Author:Teju Cole
“Well, it wasn't like I was going to run out and score heroin and score an ounce of coke - but incidentally, on the road, I would usually get tanked up and as stoned as I possibly could to go on stage. And offstage, it would be a demon that would come up about twice a week.” WellsWould BeRunningWeekStageGoes OnCome UpDemonScoreHeroinCoke Author:Iggy Pop
“I think that there is something that happens, a phenomenon that happens around a conspiracy theory, where if you believe in a conspiracy theory, then every critique of that theory is simply more proof that the conspiracy exists. And I think that that's something that goes on in the person of Donald Trump.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsHappensTheoryGoes OnTrumpProofPhenomenonConspiracyIf You BelieveCritiqueConspiracy Theory Author:Ben Domenech
“If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay between approach and avoidance. You go in a place, you smell, if it doesn't smell so good you go to the next place, you look at all the people, they're happily eating, and then you choose that place. So having to reconnoiter, having to go on a kind of treasure hunt for food is one of my favorite things.” PeopleIfsLooksKindNextGoes OnApproachEatingMy FavoriteSmellTreasureHungryDesperateYou ChooseHuntsAvoidanceFavorites ThingsTreasure Hunt Author:Robert Sietsema
“I've had friends get mad at me for not posting what they think I should post on Instagram on behalf of them or our relation. I've had people question my "integrity" based off of something I didn't post on social media, the list goes on. It's mind boggling.” PeopleThinkingShouldMindSocialMediaGoes OnIntegrityRelationMadSocial MediaListsPostsBehalfInstagramMind Boggling Author:Aeriel Miranda
“There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.” GovernmentGoes OnRight NowMarkBillsListsGatesMore MoneyLots Of MoneyNerdZuckerberg Author:Chris Hardwick
“If I hope to survive, I have to acknowledge the natural selection that goes on when film stocks and cameras are eliminated from the world. And film viewers won't want to watch the same thing over and over again from me.” IfsWorldWantFilmNaturalWatchesGoes OnCamerasAcknowledgeViewersSelectionNatural Selection Author:Guy Maddin
“Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.” ShowsTakenGoes OnTasksRadioThank GodTalk Radio Author:Guy Maddin
“If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.” IfsKindIdeasDifferentHappensPracticePathMeditationGoes OnTraditionCarefulFamiliarBuddhistNo IdeaBe CarefulVisualizationMantrasMixing Author:Sakyong Mipham
“Not everybody has that mentality and that's fine, but once Robert Redford leaves this earth - later rather than sooner - his legacy will go on.” EarthFineGoes OnLegacyMentality Author:John Boyega
“I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.” IfsThinkingStillsFactsGoes OnHabitEasierLateTrainingTongueSingersBreathingRelaxationLungsBad HabitsEasier Times Author:Joan Baez
“Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.” NightTalkingGoes OnLoversConversationLatePhonesMeaningfulMost MeaningfulMeaningful Conversations Author:Marianne Williamson
“You can go to these chat-lines. It's not hard it's really easy. Another thing the show makes clear is not talking about these issues is what leads kids to go on the Internet and find out the information themselves. And then they come across people like Mr. Healy wanting to meet them in the park. That's what leads to these kind of more-dangerous things.” PeopleKindHardShowsKidsEasyLinesTalkingIssuesClearDangerousInformationGoes OnInternetParksNot TalkingDangerous Things Author:Sarah Steele
“For instance, my friend would never go on the show to air her dirty-laundry. But Tremont is outrageous! I've been watching a lot of clips of "The Jerry Springer Show" on YouTube (I can't tell you how many clips there are!) I get to witness these men going through the process to become women and what they're sharing. My character is pre-op. She's had the breast augmentation but still got "the goods" down there.” MenStillsI CanCharacterShowsProcessAirGoes OnMy FriendsInstanceWitnessDirtyBreastsGoodsYoutubeOutrageousJerryLaundryClipDirty LaundryJerry Springer Show Author:Max von Essen
“My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.” SoulFilmArtistMinesGoes OnTasteBandStandardsCatPolicePopsListsLocalsGenreRangeScore80sVocalFoldsFunkAnnieMotownBopsFilm Scores Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo
“Music appeared later. At first I was making people laugh with my funny stories. Live and on TV too. It was great, but I started to think that people will soon get bored from it. I have said to myself: "If you are going to go on being a superstar, you have to sing!"” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsSaidStoriesLaughingTvsGoes OnBoredMaking People LaughSuperstarFunny Story Author:Verka Serduchka
“My parents probably feel closer to the U.S. They feel America came to our rescue in the war and all that sort of thing. And for their generation the war still goes on. We still save food and little bits get scraped off and boiled out the next day.” FeelsLittlesStillsWarAmericaNextBitsParentGenerationsGoes OnLittle BitRescueNext Day Author:John Gimlette
“I don't even go on the computer. Don't anybody around me get on the computer.” Goes OnComputer Author:Gorilla Zoe
“I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.” ThinkingGoes OnBandSurfaceAssumptionBrewingHiatusAcrimony Author:Carrie Brownstein
“I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education. She always said, "Acting is a privilege not a priority. Education is the priority. If you're not bringing home As and Bs, you can't go on the audition."” IfsSaidHomeActingCollegeMomGoes OnPrivilegePrioritiesAuditionsAttending Author:Aldis Hodge
“You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we just do it because we like it. Maybe someone's gonna move, or not want to go on a tour for some reason - that could happen, I guess.” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesReasonShowsHappensMovingGoes OnLaborNarrativeBusJust Do ItLabor Of Love Author:Stephen Malkmus
“When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it.” TryingMightBitsGoes OnStudiosNarrativeExploitsGears Author:Rob Brown
“If something's bugging my ass on any particular day, I'm probably going to say something about it, but I'm not going to go on a tirade.” IfsParticularGoes OnAss Author:Patterson Hood
“This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.” ShouldWritingStuffGoes OnGood Writers Author:Sune Rose Wagner
“Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.” RememberGoes On Author:Kevin Bacon
“Before Community started up again for the season, we had the chance to go on a long family vacation where we drove for ten days down the coast. I was like wow, look at these people that I am related to and am actually spending some quality time with! So it was great to be with them, but now my schedule is really difficult so I have to take what I can get.” PeopleLooksLongI CanDifficultCommunityChanceQualityGoes OnTenSeasonsSpendingRelatedWowVacationSchedulesCoastQuality TimeFamily Vacation Author:Joel McHale
“Trying to use all the existing technologies that were out there wouldn't work for us because none of them were flexible. Everything was rigid in some way, so we had to go on a manhunt, essentially for something that was a viable technology. So it was a good four-months of just designing and figuring out the lights.” WayTryingUseLightTechnologyFourDesignMonthsGoes OnFlexible Author:Christine Bieselin Clark