Top 100 Going Around Quotes
#1. I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.
Walker Evans
#2. There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.
Angela Merkel
#3. He's not going around telling everyone you're monkey-butt crazy, so at least you brutalized a seriously sweet guy.
Josephine Angelini
#4. I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.
Paloma Faith
#5. As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast - the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting west to the Americas - both powers had two main goals in mind: finding precious metals and planting sugarcane. (Oh, and spreading the word of God.) The
Tom Reiss
#6. I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.
Miranda July
#7. I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
Albert Ellis
#8. Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.
Adolf Hitler
#9. You'll find that fellow gym go-ers are super supportive and friendly. It must be all those endorphins going around!
Jenna Ushkowitz
#10. There were no other groups in the ancient world going around claiming to be the human race.
N. T. Wright
#11. Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.
Morgan Freeman
#12. Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.
Joel Ross
#13. I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
John Malkovich
#14. I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I'm not one for sitting by a pool or lying on a beach. I also like to sketch while I'm on holiday, if I have time.
Jools Holland
#15. We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship.
Donal O'Callaghan
#16. The Umbrella Ward is holding except that one blip in that popular game that's going around. Annoying as the Shuos are, they are correct that people can be manipulated through games.
Yoon Ha Lee
#17. Going around in life using German, which Margaret had learned only a few years before, was like walking around in high heels--although it drove up the aesthetic rush of going out on the town, it was dreadfully uncomfortable after a while, and there were certain places you couldn't go
Ida Hattemer-Higgins
#18. Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
Jeremy Renner
#19. That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.
Judith Perelman Rossner
#20. All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
Annie Proulx
#21. There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well - unless you are a Christian.
Francis Schaeffer
#22. I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.
Liam Gallagher
#23. One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
Michio Kaku
#24. I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.
Katharine Hepburn
#25. The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.
Michael Nutter
#26. Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.
Anders Holm
#27. I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.
Sterling Marlin
#28. We're just going around all day like unconscious machines, and meanwhile there's all this rage and worry and uneasiness just building up and building up inside us
Wallace Shawn
#29. I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.
John D. MacDonald
#30. I didn't want to be like a punch-drunk fighter, going around and reliving the big moment ...
Greg Noll
#31. I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing.
John Krasinski
#32. Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#33. Whether I'm working a street corner or a market stall, well, that's none of their business unless they're buying. The anonymity is comfortable, like going around draped in magic, hidden from view.
Cat Hellisen
#34. The surprises, liberations, and clarifications of travel can sometimes be garnered by going around the block as well as going around the world, and walking travels both near and far.
Rebecca Solnit
#35. When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.
Alicia Keys
#36. A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!
Wei Wu Wei
#37. As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put them in the newspaper. But they're good stories, and I would jot them down thinking maybe one day I could write that as a short story.
Pete Hamill
#38. The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.
Dambisa Moyo
#39. I like James Franco. I think he's really cute. I remember a while ago there was a rumor going around that he was getting married and all my friends and I were freaking out. Yeah, I think he's cute!
Miranda Cosgrove
#40. But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.
Brian Epstein
#41. There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.
Dennis C. Blair
#42. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.
Arthur M. Jolly
#43. There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!
Olivia Newton-John
#44. You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last!
Avijeet Das
#45. My husband and I were in Paris for the weekend and I hated wearing anything that was in style. I really loved '50s dresses, so we started going around Paris and hunting this stuff down. It became like this treasure hunt. From then on, I felt like a pirate every time I left Paris.
Stephanie Seymour
#46. That was just like a ride," he said. "Did you see me going around in there? Like a fun house, right? Like an amusement park. I ride all those rides. I'm used to that sort of thing. I sit right up front.
Janet Evanovich
#47. Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
Paolo Sorrentino
#48. One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building ... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.
Kevin Rose
#49. Why is it alright to be going around, going mental with a gun, shooting all the monkeys and killing them? Because one day we're going to run out.
Karl Pilkington
#50. All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid's eyes
Matthew Hayden
#51. There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Terry Pratchett
#52. I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
Imogen Heap
#53. The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on ... does that happen today?
David Gilmour
#54. I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.
Anne, Princess Royal
#55. I want to create a space that moves people. It doesn't matter if it is a house, or a museum, or whatever. So, it is somebody sitting on that lawn, just going around and around and feeling really happy. That is something that I'm striving for.
Tadao Ando
#56. You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
Robert Crippen
#57. You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Jimmy Dean
#58. I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.
Geraldine Brooks
#59. Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
Jerzy Kosinski
#60. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford
#61. We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
Gore Vidal
#62. Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.
Robin Cousins
#63. I think there is some misunderstandin g that has been going around as everybody wants to support me. But, still I'd like to thank all my fans for loving me so much.
Sanaya Irani
#64. How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
Andy Grove
#65. Is it a boy or a girl ?". There is a great answer to that one going around : "We don't know ; it hasn't told us yet.
Kate Bornstein
#66. During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
Emma Thompson
#67. I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.
George W. Bush
#68. He said, McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity for the poor man.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#69. I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.
Emile Hirsch
#70. There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Winston S. Churchill
#71. Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
Wendell Berry
#72. If you're going around in circles, maybe you're cutting corners.
James Patterson
#73. I like wearing gloves made of cheese (Swiss), and then going around asking elderly men if they want a knuckle sandwich.
Jarod Kintz
#74. Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.
William Whitelaw
#75. We can bury our heads in the sand and choose to ignore what is going around us, or we can look with new eyes, the eyes of the heart, upon the distortions of the past to walk again in authenticity and truth.
Barbara Meiklejohn-Free
#76. You know, Granna, going around saying how you don't watch TV... It's not even pretentious anymore... it's just plain out of it.
Donald Margulies
#77. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
Douglas Adams
#78. Well, I am producing a show that's going to be on NBC this fall. It's called 'School Pride,' and it's a reality show where we're going around the country and renovating schools. It's really great.
Cheryl Hines
#79. One good thing about television is that you have a lot of people with money who have real good cameras going around to all these countries. You haven't been there? Great. Turn on The History Channel or The Discovery Channel. So, we're lucky in that way.
Grace Slick
#80. I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#81. Jesus Christ, you're soaking wet. Seriously, have you been going around with all this between your legs? I can feel it through fucking flannel, honey. Oh my God, I can feel it through flannel, he said, the first words almost steady and sure and the last ones like nothing she'd ever heard before.
Charlotte Stein
#82. Being a square keeps you from going around in circles.
J. Vernon McGee
#83. The planet spins at over a thousand miles an hour all the time. Actually, it's going around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, even if it wasn't sponging. So you can move plenty fast without going anywhere.
Maggie Stiefvater
#84. Pam's father had been diagnosed with rectal cancer. It didn't surprise me. Put a bunch of white assholes together and you're going to find that going around.
Stephen King
#85. Everyone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer
Kyle Massey
#86. Allan had always reasoned about religion that if you couldn't know for sure then there was no point in going around guessing.
Jonas Jonasson
#88. It's all very well going around thinking you're a cowboy, until you run into somebody who thinks he's an Indian.
Kinky Friedman
#89. Contra: Why don't you trust me honey? Wait, rather I doubt that you are in a going around.
Vikrmn
#90. Me, personally, I tell dude 137 how I'm adding an embossed slogan to my dildos. Cast in high-relief going around the base, it's going to say, "The Dick That Killed Cassie Wright ... " On the thickest part, so if you twist it the letters of the writing stimulate the clit.
Chuck Palahniuk
#91. What is the world coming to when girls allow their hands to be kissed without gloves? That young people don't use proper protection these days is exactly why there are always so many colds going around.
Bauvard
#92. Having people like that in your service degrades such service, when they are going around the world like beggars." Such was the advice from her Majesty, Empress of the German Empire, on the subject of hiring Wolfgang Mozart.
Robert Spaethling
#93. He wasn't sure which side of the argument he came down on, but at least he wasn't going around melting people for an audience. Besides, for the moment he figured he'd choose the side that wasn't actively trying to kill him. He strolled and stuck
Brandon Sanderson
#94. All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
Dorothy Parker
#95. My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.
Assata Shakur
#96. The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."
Mary Norris
#97. Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.
John Cusack
#98. So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
Anna Louise Strong
#99. I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.
Timothy Leary
#100. It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
Criss Jami
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