Top 100 A Go Quotes
#1. My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#2. It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.
Penelope Lively
#3. I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.
Pete Postlethwaite
#4. I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
Carol Ann Duffy
#5. I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.
Chris Riddell
#6. Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.
Kathryn Minshew
#7. But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.
Evan Davis
#8. You're too embarrassed to say it? Sex. Go ahead, give it a go. Sexsexsex
Wendy Higgins
#9. A woman's duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes ... to speak and act in defiance of convention.
Margaret Sanger
#10. Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough
Derek Landy
#11. Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.
Marco Rubio
#12. When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.
MaryJanice Davidson
#13. You don't expect your readers to go, "Ah this book's not just a fine work of literary whatshisname, but also a get-rich-quick scheme," to be followed shortly by a go-to-prison-quick scheme, which I believe he did. Are
Neil Gaiman
#14. Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go.
Tony Blair
#15. I sometimes clean my ears up to five times a day. Even having buds in the same room makes me want to have a go. When I'm in India, the cheap ones freak me out because I worry they'll drop off inside my ear. In the U.K., I like Johnson's.
Jade Jagger
#16. If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.
Tamsin Greig
#17. I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
Ian Thorpe
#18. If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.
Richard Branson
#19. My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.
Sarah Wayne Callies
#20. I'd actually quite like to try working behind a bar for a while. I'd give that a go.
Russell Tovey
#21. You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.
Ian Holloway
#22. I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.
Jenna Dewan
#23. Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching..
Peter Tosh
#24. Why not give it a go? Otherwise you will just be at home thinking about it.
Patrick Gregory
#25. I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er.
Nina Conti
#26. I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'
Sarah Roemer
#27. I didn't do great in school. I didn't have many options. I mean, I'd like to have gone to art college, but I didn't have the grades. I didn't have any qualifications. But I had some friends who were hairdressers, so I just thought, Well, I'll have a go at it.
Guido Palau
#28. I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.
Hoda Kotb
#29. One of the key things is to encourage people to have a go in the kitchen and not to be embarrassed by it. Try and spend a couple of nights a week cooking something up. It doesn't have to be complicated, it can be something really simple.
William Katt
#30. I think women who are willing to 'have a go' are much more widely accepted now than ever before. I think if the opportunities aren't obvious, then women who wish to run their own business will find them or make them happen for themselves.
Mimi Macpherson
#31. I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go.
Alan Dale
#32. I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.
Tinie Tempah
#33. It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
#34. You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.
Michael Winter
#35. I know what I want. I try and convey that at the beginning and set that out, but within those parameters, I'm very happy for them to experiment and try things and give it a go. To me, it's important.
Dan Mazer
#36. Play off your great player ... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.
Don Meyer
#37. I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.
Michael Ovitz
#38. It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
Aaron Johnson
#39. Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.
Kevin Rudd
#41. Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
Phillip Adams
#42. As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#43. I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.
Heston Blumenthal
#44. I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.
Frank Ocean
#45. My wife had a go at me last night. She said, Youll drive me to my grave. I had the car out in thirty seconds.
Tommy Cooper
#46. Kathel did not back down at all. "Well, Keirah told me she was suddenly unattached, if you know what I mean. And I figured, what the hell, why not have a go at her myself," Kathel said enthusiastically.
Madison Thorne Grey
#47. For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
Fernando Alonso
#49. If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.
Richard Branson
#50. When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
Gary Numan
#51. One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Margaret Thatcher
#52. You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.
Penelope Wilton
#53. One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.
Takenaka Shigekata
#54. Do not be a "go along, get along" person when it comes to the suffering of others. Integrity is not a popularity contest. Stand for love!
Bryant McGill
#55. Shiroyama's heart stops. The earth's pulse beats against his ear.
An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth ...
... a black butterfly lands on the white stone, and unfolds its wings.
David Mitchell
#56. I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
Fanny Howe
#57. I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
Landon Liboiron
#58. I'm feeling better after the game than I did when I came off the floor with cramps ... I was going to try to give it a go, and 'Spo said 'No.' You know, after I came out of the game, they kind of took off. And it was frustrating sitting out and not being able to help the team.
LeBron James
#59. Be a goal-setter, a go-getter, all the while, moving, in humility and kindness.
Kamini Arichandran
#60. Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.
Jo Nesbo
#61. I think it is very difficult for somebody who campaigned to stay in, who thinks there will be disaster if we leave and so on to suddenly turn it around and start believing that we can make a go of it.
Andrea Leadsom
#62. You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.
David James Elliott
#64. I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.
Ira Glass
#65. I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case I failed because I did not want a script out there with my name on it that might be completely dysfunctional.
Ben Affleck
#66. I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.
Karl Pilkington
#67. I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
Geoffrey Fisher
#68. I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.
Peter Capaldi
#69. A leader on the pitch is someone who can turn a game in the right direction, he isn't someone who has a go at his colleagues after the match for everything they did wrong.
Michael Ballack
#70. I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.
Catherine Martin
#71. I'm just capable of entertaining the fantastic idea that, in certain circumstances, Homo sapiens might actually be capable of thinking. It must be worth a go, since we've tried everything else.
Terry Pratchett
#72. I hate dreaming because when you want to sleep, you want to sleep. Dreaming is work. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord.
Mitch Hedberg
#73. Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.
Sarah Hall
#74. I must have had that Bugsy Malone type of face that attracts every fucker to have a go at me.
Stephen Richards
#75. I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that filler stuff injected, but I looked like a hamster with wodges of food in its cheeks, so I stopped that.
Deborah Moggach
#76. I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'
James Bay
#77. Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.
Trevor Baylis
#78. Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.
Casey Abrams
#79. My heroes - people like Woody Allen - were stand-up comedians. Therefore, I always felt I should give it a go.
Stephen Merchant
#80. My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
Chris Hayes
#81. Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal knowledge to the common man will also a go a long way in improving the law and order situation in the country.
Narendra Modi
#82. I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.
Patrick Stewart
#83. Her nose was perfect; her lips exquisite. Like a master placing a go stone on the board after long deliberation, he placed the details of her beauty one by one in the misty dark and drew back to savour them.
Yukio Mishima
#84. I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.
Monique Coleman
#85. Harry Potter. But Dumbledore won't always be there to protect you." Harry looked mockingly all around the shop. "Wow . . . look at that . . . he's not here now! So why not have a go? They might be able to find you a double cell in Azkaban with your loser of a husband!
J.K. Rowling
#86. I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon ...
John Geddes
#87. "What do you say, Miss Lyndon? Shall we have a go at it?"
" 'Shall we have a go at it?' " Ellie choked out. Really, this was not the proposal of her dreams.
Julia Quinn
#88. Listen, Harr,y can I have a go on it? Can I?"
"I don't think anyone should ride that broom just yet!" said Hermoine shrilly.
Harry and Ron looked at her.
"What d'you think Harry's going to do with it - sweep the floor?" said Ron.
J.K. Rowling
#90. There's really never any sort of master plan. I find if I've got a couple of tunes that I think are possibilities, I phone everyone up and get them into the studio and we'll have a go at recording them.
Nick Lowe
#91. IF a woman has manifested her love or desire, either by signs or by motions of the body,
and is afterwards rarely or never seen anywhere, or if a woman is met for the first time,
the man should get a go-between to approach her.
Mallanaga Vatsyayana
#92. People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.
Will Carling
#93. The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
Kelly Jones
#94. I remember a huge tiredness coming over me, a kind of lethargy in the face of the tangled mess before me. It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#95. Patrick Vieira is 6 foot 4, and he starts having a go at Gary Neville, so I said 'come on have a go at me,' that's it.
Roy Keane
#96. I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.
Jennifer Ellison
#97. If you're going to be a model, what's going to get you the job on a go-see and makes you stand out, it might not be your lipstick or your portfolio or what you're wearing, it might come from your core being.
Andre Leon Talley
#98. I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.
Roy Harper
#99. If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.
Eddie McGuire
#100. When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go.
Jamie Cullum
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