Best goes-on & next Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.”

Next Five Goes On Hundred Aim Chapters Polished Next Chapter

Author:Elinor Lipman

“It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.”

Night Next Difficult Goes On

Author:Richard O'Brien

“I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.”

Knows Men Made Wanted Next Fun Hours Careers Practice College Goes On Piano Grandmother Smarter My Grandmother Scholarship

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord's way, and do not torment yourself. We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.”

Thinking Way Trying Wells Littles Long Done Hate Next Lord Goes On Ought Quiet Hatred Faults Calm Ill Seeking Torment Discipleship Scrutinize

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Let me tell you, people go on and on about what a great idea electricity was, but I'm going to put toilet paper right next to the wheel and say those are the best ideas anyone's ever had. Scoff at it if you will, but try living for two millennia without it and then we'll talk.”

People Ifs Trying Two Ideas Next Goes On Paper Let Me Wheels Electricity Toilets Great Idea Toilet Paper

Book:The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

“Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.”

Stories Happens Universe Reading Next Waiting Possibility Goes On Divides Verses Intervention Every Second

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If you look at a photograph, and you think, 'My isn't that a beautiful photograph,' and you go on to the next one, or 'Isn't that nice light?' so what? I mean what does it do to you or what's the real value in the long run? What do you walk away from it with? I mean, I'd much rather show you a photograph that makes demands on you, that you might become involved in on your own terms or be perplexed by.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Mean Long Doe Real Shows Light Might Running Beautiful Values Next Term Walks Nice Goes On Involved Demand Photograph Long Runs The Next One Real Value Perplexed

Author:Duane Michals

“So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.”

Ifs Play Next Mistake Goes On Loud Next Time

Author:Art Blakey

“In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.”

Next Dark Goes On Sentences Atmosphere Begets One Sentence Meteors Kindling

Book:Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism

Source: Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism

“If I tell a joke on stage and the crowd laughs for a minute, I stand there for a minute and enjoy them laughing before I go on to the next joke. On TV, if I stand there for a minute while they laugh, I look like an idiot who can't remember the next joke.”

Ifs Looks Remember Next Enjoy Laughing Minutes Stage Tvs Goes On Jokes Crowds Idiot

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.”

People Ifs Knows Way Should Firsts Moments Life Is Next Realizing Chance Goes On Sitting First Time Meetings Everyday Stranger Get Up Cafes Chance Meeting

Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go on; next that our neighbours will not, on their side, let us rest supinely, even if we could do so from other causes; and thirdly, that by making the united colonies more valuable as an ally to Great Britain, we shall strengthen rather than weaken the imperial connection. (Cheers.”

Source: Speeches and Addresses Chiefly on the Subject of British-American Union

“I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I dont necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.”

Want Years Heart Whole Wanted Next Easy Goes On Stones Mindset Bless Rolling Touring Rolling Stones Ruts Old Things Same Old Thing

Author:Paul Weller

“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.”

“A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time - the telling of what came first and before done forever.”

Firsts Said Done Religion Next Speak Forever Goes On Longing Addresses

Author:Laura Riding

“I go on the road all the time, but I'm only performing for two hours a night, and then I'll do a meet-and-greet, and then I'll get a bite to eat, get drunk, pass out, wake up the next day, sleeping the next day, sleeping off the hangover, and then I'm in the next city.”

Two Night Next Hours Sleep Cities Goes On Wake Up Drunk Performing Bites Next Day Hangover

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.”

Thinking Kind Has Beens Jobs Remember Night Next Memories Watches Five Childhood Minutes Stage Ready Goes On Opening Make Sense Queens Mum Spain Schizophrenic Vomiting Opening Night

Author:Javier Bardem

“It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.”

“For a man it's like if something goes on on-stage you'll have a drink at the bar and talk about it. With a female artist it's a big deal, you have a meeting and she's mad at you for the next couple of shows!”

Ifs Men Shows Bigs Artist Next Deals Stage Goes On Couple Drink Female Mad Meetings Bars Big Deal Female Artists

Author:Chris Johnson

“"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.”

World Children Stills War Humanity Fall Next Morning Our Lives Goes On Horror Wake Up Falling In Love Cruelty Ups & Downs

Author:Paul Auster

“That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."”

Next Christ Church Wife Love You Goes On Husband Mutual Verses Submission Christ Love Love Your Wife Husband Love

Author:Francis George

“I think I'm built like a painter. I have friends who are painters and they reflect a similar psychological attitude towards their work. They don't know what's coming next, they just wait for the message, for orders to come and then off they go on their next project.”

Thinking Knows Order Next Waiting Attitude Goes On Projects Messages Built Psychological Painter

Author:John McLaughlin

“In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays.”

Ifs Persons Next Goes On Lovers Dating

Author:Esther Perel

“Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.”

Ifs Way Kind Night Guy Next President Half Feet Tvs Goes On Mets Thirty Fifty Shore Rope Drowning Half Way Kissinger

Author:Mort Sahl

“Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.”

Form Next Goes On Lessons Various Repeats

Book:If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul

Source: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul

“We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.”

Ifs World Want Stories Might Next Loses Wonder Magic Goes On Likes Selling Listeners The Next One

Author:Tennessee Williams

“Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, when you have sucked out all the goodness to be gained from having made them, you can cheerfully forget them and go on to the next big opportunity.”

Trying Made Bigs Next Opportunity Forget Mistake Practice Strange Goes On Goodness Acquire Quirks Savoring Uncovering

Author:Daniel Dennett

“You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.”

Knows Writing Trying Stills Happens Next Written Goes On Next Day Juice

Book:Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“When I became a winner, I said, 'I figured it out, but if I'm wrong, I'm getting the hell out, because I want to save my money and go on to the next trade.'”

Ifs Want Said Next Hell Goes On Trade Winner

Author:Martin S. Schwartz

“But, how many times can you get exactly what you want, when you want it? Not very often. So, why not have it with entertainment? That's what it's fun. It's fun! I find that's how I'm watching, more and more. My kids go on binges, and I get sucked in. And then, it's the middle of the night and they're late for school, the next day.”

Want Kids School Night Next Fun Middle Goes On Late Entertainment What You Want Why Not Next Day Middle Of The Night Binge

Author:Jenji Kohan

“"Save more tomorrow" is a nudge to help people do what they know they want to do, which is save more, but they can't bring themselves to save more now. Just like many of us are planning to go on diets next month, or maybe in two months, certainly not tonight.”

People Knows Want Two Helping Next Months Goes On Tomorrow Planning Diets Tonight Two Months Nudge

Author:Richard Thaler

“Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.”

Ifs Mind Whole Moments Next Goes On Bounds Delusion

Book:Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda

Source: Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda

“You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.”

Giving Should Two Next Waiting Audience Forever Goes On Jokes Seconds The Next One

Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

“What is a scene? a) A scene starts and ends in one place at one time (the Aristotelian unities of time and place-this stuff goes waaaayyyy back). b) A scene starts in one place emotionally and ends in another place emotionally. Starts angry, ends embarrassed. Starts lovestruck, ends disgusted. c) Something happens in a scene, whereby the character cannot go back to the way things were before. Make sure to finish a scene before you go on to the next. Make something happen.”

Way Ends Character Happens Next Stuff Goes On Scene Angry Unity Things Happen One Time Embarrassed Disgusted

Author:Janet Fitch

“One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's a combination of the music of the movement and the church. Those mass meetings are where people got the energy to go on to the next day.”

People Important Next Energy Church Rights Movement Goes On Mass Meetings Civil Rights Combination Next Day Civil Rights Movement

Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.

“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.”

People Ifs Looks Kind Next Goes On Approach Eating My Favorite Smell Treasure Hungry Desperate You Choose Hunts Avoidance Favorites Things Treasure Hunt

Author:Robert Sietsema

“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.”

Feels Littles Stills War America Next Bits Parent Generations Goes On Little Bit Rescue Next Day

Author:John Gimlette

“Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking about herself. I would just mute the TV, look over to the computer and start plugging in notes. Then the next morning you go "Wow, I like this". I'd almost forget what I did, and then it would inspire me to go on and do the next thing. That's what I do. Just kind of follow my own little thing.”

Looks Kind Littles Shows Next Stuff My Own Forget Half Talking Morning Written Inspire Tvs Goes On Computer Notes Boring Actresses Little Things Wow Mute Letterman Plugging In

Author:Terry Bozzio

“In movies, you just see somebody close their eyes, and you go on to the next scene.”

Eye Next Goes On Scene

Author:Tig Notaro

“If you stick around too long, people go on looking for the next thing.”

People Ifs Long Next Goes On Sticks

Author:Chris Jericho

“I'm not content. What I've accomplished already was good, and it was needed at the time in order for me to move on, but I'm so hungry I can't even tell you what was, I'm concentrating on what is to be. Once I knock that down, I'll go on to the next accomplishment until I can finally say, "that was the greatest." I can only say what it is when I'm done; and I'm not done, I have a lot of work to do.”

I Can Done Moving Order Next Goes On Needed Hungry Accomplishment Accomplished Concentrating

Author:Kai Greene

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.”

Knows Writing Trying Firsts Stills Book Stories Light Happens Next Morning Written Goes On Warm Every Morning Next Day Juice

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I don't think that the universal themes of love, compassion, and forgiveness (are present). (You're) searching constantly for the next step, the next level and consciousness in your spirituality, who you are as a human being and what you contribute to society or what God means to you is always a course everyone goes on.”

Thinking Humans Mean Spirituality Courses Next Human Beings Levels Consciousness Compassion Steps Goes On Universal Who You Are Theme Next Steps Next Level Universal Themes

Author:Tim McGraw

“Work hard on each opinion, but once the case is decided, don't look back; go on to the next case and give it your all. It's not productive to worry about what's out and released, over and done. That's advice I now give to people new to the judging business.”

People Giving Looks Hard Done Next Opinion Cases Worry Advice Judging Hard Work Goes On Decided Productive Give It Your All

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I've discovered that, in order for life to go on, you have to believe in necessary fantasies such as what you think is going to happen next week will actually happen, the people who are alive right now will be alive next week.”

People Thinking Believe Happens Order Next Fantasy Alive Week Goes On Right Now Next Week

Author:Decca Aitkenhead

“Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.”

“You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.”

People Love Life Next Loss Deals Relationship Goes On Get Up Rejection Next Day

Author:Taylor Swift

“How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?”

Next Literature Week Goes On Next Week

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.”

Matter Stories Life Is Turns Next Goes On Fingers Instance Substance Logical Globes Orderly Make Out

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

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