Go West Sayings

#1. Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

Bob Seger

#2. Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

Horace Greeley

#3. I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

Jonathan Raban

#4. Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.

Robert Moses

#5. Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Horace Greeley

#6. For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West.

Harold Holzer

#7. There are three motels in Davy if you go north, and at least six over in Marthasville if you go west. If you go to the interstate, there are a skadillion places to stay.

Charlaine Harris

#8. Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did go west and had a child? If you saw some sweet young thing, maybe you'd run off with her and leave our child.

Jude Deveraux

#9. But the root cause of this war was geopolitical. Georgia was determined to go West and Russia was determined to stop it from doing so.

Ronald D. Asmus

#10. When I ask the young people from California why they want to go to New York, and the ones from the East why they're determined to go West, I hear what you'd expect: new challenges, different weather, boyfriends, girlfriends, to make a name ... They laugh when I say, 'But your poor mother.'

Susan Estrich

#11. Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

Horace Greeley

#12. Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan's curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent's hand

Rick Riordan

#13. He went to America, months ago!
America!
Yes - America.
Is that east or west?
West.
People travel east, my boy - from the east you get wheat and cloth and every other good thing. What ever made our Hammad go west? Didn't anyone offer him directions? Didn't he ask anyone?

Abdul Rahman Munif

#14. Go West, young man.

Aaron Burr

#15. The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That's how the best ideas happen. Just out of nowhere. When you're not even thinking. Like they've been created for you and you just have to reach out and grab them before someone else does.

Shannon Mullen

#16. When, you wonder, does Sarah go west and build her rambling mansion? Not yet. Soon, but not yet. First, her husband has to do a blood-coughing two-step off this mortal coil.

Laird Barron

#17. I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York
said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't
cold enough. Let's go west.

Richard Jeni

#18. I figured I'd go west, see what was 'cross the BeeCee border, maybe get there for winter and walk 'cross that frozen ocean like them yellow-haired

Beth Lewis

#19. If you want to go east, don't go west.

Ramakrishna

#20. Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.
People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.

Karen Hines

#21. Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#22. I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors ... It's incredibly romantic.

Brooke Burke

#23. The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark.

L. Frank Baum

#24. I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

Jason Segel

#25. Guinea has managed to go 42 days consecutively without any new Ebola infections. And that comes after neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, the other two West African countries that were hardest hit by Ebola, have been through the same cycle of zero Ebola cases.

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

#26. If you want to say Fuck you, West, go ahead and say it.

Robin York

#27. I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.

Tom Brokaw

#28. Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had this arrogance - 'We don't want to typecast ourselves.' But I said, 'I want to do Irish parts. That's the thing that's gonna give me the leg up.'

Brian F. O'Byrne

#29. If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.

Donald Glover

#30. In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

Joe Manchin

#31. It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something ...

Carol Emshwiller

#32. So now that you've committed to a girl, maybe you can go to class more, or even get a cat," I said.

Kasie West

#33. Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

Mae West

#34. I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.

Mahesh Bhatt

#35. And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.

Kanye West

#36. How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!

Mae West

#37. To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

Elisabeth Moss

#38. If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

Horace Greeley

#39. Never try to swim through a sharp rock.
Go around! Go around!

Peter James West

#40. What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

Bruce Babbitt

#41. I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?

Kanye West

#42. Ah, well,' I said resignedly, 'if that's that, that's that, what?' 'So it would appear, sir.' 'Nothing to do but keep the chin up and the upper lip as stiff as can be managed. I think I'll go to bed with an improving book. Have you read The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish by Rex West?

P.G. Wodehouse

#43. Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows.

Leo Tolstoy

#44. I also knew that he was the kind of anile little runt who, in foyers and theatre bars the West End over, can be heard bleating into their gin and tonics, "I go to the theatre to be entertained.

Stephen Fry

#45. I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

Rebecca West

#46. When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

Christine Quinn

#47. I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.

Questlove

#48. West didn't want her to get hurt anymore. He wanted her to let go. He wanted her to appreciate her life. To know he loved her. All these things sounded so stupid to him when he imagined saying them and he knew she didn't want to hear them anyway. She wanted to hear one thing.

Francesca Lia Block

#49. A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.

Stefan Heym

#50. My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

Josh Hartnett

#51. I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

Caroline Lawrence

#52. I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

Bashar Al-Assad

#53. Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the job done

Matthew West

#54. I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.

Jhene Aiko

#55. No one should be allowed to work in the West Wing of the White House who has not suffered a major disappointment in life... the responsibility of working there was too great... to be entrusted to people who weren't painfully aware of how badly things can go wrong.

Charles Murray

#56. In the West, we are very goal oriented. We know where we want to go, and we are very directed in getting there. This may be useful, but often we forget to enjoy ourselves along the route.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#57. It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.

Ti West

#58. But I'll tell you what I do wish. Wish we could live twice, take a different path each time. That at the end of all this, when I finished serving God in the West, I could go back to that day on the beach, put a ring on Eleanor's finger instead.

Blake Crouch

#59. I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.

Ben Elliot

#60. If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them.
People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

Kanye West

#61. To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

George R R Martin

#62. I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.

Jemima West

#63. There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

Morris West

#64. There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.

Paul Theroux

#65. I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.

Kanye West

#66. When will he be as he was?' Dany demanded.
'When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east' said Mirri Maz Duur. 'When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.

George R R Martin

#67. All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.

Christopher West

#68. You can never go wrong cuttin' fence,' repeated Smith, warming to his task. (Pling!) "Always cut fence. That's the law west of the 100th meridian. East of that don't matter none. Back there it's all lost anyhow. But west, we cut fence,' (Plang!)

Edward Abbey

#69. Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.

Alan Price

#70. Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

Bill Cowher

#71. The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.

George Crook

#72. Once you'd been with Freddie, you wouldn't go anywhere else.' (How true this was to prove.) This incessant bragging by Fred West was at best, annoying and at worst, sickening. According to him, he was God's gift to women.

Stephen Richards

#73. Keith Richards on change - "It's gotta go up and down. Otherwise, you won't know the difference. It would be just a bland, straight line, like lookin' at a heart machine. And when that straight line happens, baby, you're dead.

Jessica Pallington West

#74. Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

Cornel West

#75. When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

Louie Giglio

#76. In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

Will Rogers

#77. See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go ...

Vita Sackville-West

#78. I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen

Kanye West

#79. It was basically a legal version of the sheriff standing out in front of the saloon in the Old West and saying, 'Let's form a posse and go get these guys.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#80. Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces of language and religion, the propaganda of state-run Arab media and the cynicism of the liberal West are all stacked against them.

Victor Davis Hanson

#81. Joe Louis was one of my closest friends ... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.

Mickey Rooney

#82. Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

Mae West

#83. I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

Jake Shears

#84. How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

Adam West

#85. Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

John Steinbeck

#86. So often at home in the West Village, I'm like, 'Why aren't I allowed a horse?' I would keep a horse in a stable in my apartment, and I would fit him with rubber shoes, and we'd just roll him out. If I needed to go to a meeting somewhere, I'd just get on my horse and go across town.

Cary Fukunaga

#87. I don't wanna go throught the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
Without your all-consuming
Passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking
What if I had given everything?
Instead of going through the motions.

Matthew West

#88. Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide.

Fatema Mernissi

#89. When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

Douglass North

#90. I was born in Swindon ... a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.

Justin Hayward

#91. Henry,that's how you get rid of fleas. You keep them from laying eggs. You go to war with them.

Jason Jack Miller

#92. Give me something to go on, here. What kind of black magic are we talking? Elphaba,Wicked Witch of the West-type stuff or Slytherin-type stuff?

Chloe Neill

#93. My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

Kanye West

#94. I wanted to go to the rooftree of Maine to start my trip before turning west. It seemed to give the journey a design, and everything in the world must have design or the human mind rejects it. But in addition it must have purpose or the human conscience shies away from it. Maine

John Steinbeck

#95. She had not learned from reading it that adultery was good or that we should all become shysters. Did people all go on strike or head west after reading Steinbeck? Did they go whaling after reading Melville? Are people not a little more complex than that?

Azar Nafisi

#96. I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

Matthew McConaughey

#97. Want to go to West Virginia and risk life and limb with me?"
Zane smirked and gave a single nod. "Sounds like fun.

Abigail Roux

#98. They'll tell you they love you like stars in the West But along comes corn whiskey; they love it the best. Go,

Caroline Kennedy

#99. Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

Rebecca West

#100. The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.

Shilpa Shetty