Top 100 Going'for Quotes
#1. The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
#2. Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
Rachel Cusk
#3. Ty: Were you running away?
Kit: I was going for a walk.
Ty: No, you're lying. You were running away.
Kit: Why do you care what I do?
Ty: I'm a Shadowhunter. We help people.
Kit: Now you're lying
Ty: I need you. You might be surprised to hear that.
Cassandra Clare
#4. With each project, I'm going for something that makes viewers think, 'Wow, I've never seen a film like this before,' and later think, 'Wow, I've only seen a film like this once before. I saw it in theaters and am watching it now on Netflix or a similar streaming service.'
Kathryn Bigelow
#5. In LA, I'm twice the size- height and everything else- of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
Keira Knightley
#6. I feel like I've gotten so lucky and gotten to do such cool things with such cool folks. It's really great. You definitely want that momentum to keep going, for sure.
David Costabile
#7. I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.
Sophie Okonedo
#8. What kind of look are you going for?" he asked instead.
"Clothed.
J.R. Ward
#9. I haven't had to make a decision between 'my brand' and money. Everybody seems to get what I'm going for: the healthy lifestyle, staying active, being young and youthful.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#10. There are two things you don't do: One, you don't open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don't jinx a man going for a perfect week
Jim Nantz
#11. You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
"A long one?
Cassandra Clare
#12. Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you ... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.
Donald O'Connor
#13. You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.
Diana Lopez
#14. Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
Mary Tyler Moore
#15. Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.
Jonathan Mostow
#16. Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.
James Randi
#17. All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.
Lawrence Taylor
#18. I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.
AnnaLynne McCord
#19. But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.
Daniel J. Evans
#20. You don't need anyone's approval and in fact, you probably won't get it, so don't even try. Build, release and iterate. Make a list of the features you want to create over the next six months and get going! For small companies, once a week; for larger companies, maybe twice a month.
Kevin Rose
#21. Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.
Brad Pitt
#22. I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.
Paul Tudor Jones
#23. I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
George Benson
#24. I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. My yacht. I don't mind going for a coupla hours' cruise. I'll even lend you that book so you'll have something to read on the revenue
F Scott Fitzgerald
#26. "I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn't exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."
Miley Cyrus
#27. Even when it seems things are just not going your way do not lose your focus. Rather, that is the time to really dig your heels in and keep on going for that goal. Anything in life that is of value and worth having does not come easy.
Emeralda Savage
#29. Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something.
Humphrey Lyttelton
#30. I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and that's a whole other thing. I'm going for what it sounds like right away, so it may not even look good on the page.
Tom Waits
#31. One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.
Mark Twain
#32. Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.
Eric Shanteau
#34. I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.
Pete Rozelle
#35. Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
Veronica Roth
#36. How'm I doin'?" Jim asked in his own voice - hey, he could talk out of the bastard's mouth, too.
Across the way, Adrian shrugged. "Pretty damn good - I can't sense you. But I gotta ask - the pair of you want a cigarette? Or are you going for a twofer?
J.R. Ward
#37. All girls who seemed to have everything going for them. And decided they had nothing.
Sasha Grey
#38. Nik. All you need to do is wear this tonight, and we'll sell out."
I glanced down at the shirt and then back up at Cole.
"Yeah, I'm sure this is the look you were going for."
"You can make anything look good," he said softly.
Brodi Ashton
#39. What sort of look are you going for?"
Damn, how did he answer this? "Something ... normal," he finally said.
Toni Blake
#40. When lifting, I'm always with a trainer because the thing that makes a difference is that last 20% in your training, and he very scientifically looks after my food as well, because when I'm going for a 'shirt off' shot, everything changes the month before, and I'm timed down to the day.
Hugh Jackman
#41. If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.
Mikhail Tal
#42. When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.
Bob Newhart
#43. However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.
Pat Garrett
#44. I think the book that really kind of woke me up a little bit when I was starting to write was 'Winesburg, Ohio' by Sherwood Anderson. I was in grad school at Brown, going for an M.A. in creative writing. Those stories seemed to me to be doing away with pretty writing.
Tom Drury
#45. You're kind of gross. Might want to think about shaving, too, unless you're going for the homeless look with no chance of getting laid.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#46. I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.
Bonnie Langford
#47. Sometimes life isn't worth the pain. i'm going for a swim. goodbye, my love.
Jake Vander Ark
#48. It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.
James C. Collins
#49. I'm a feminist. So if a woman and I are going for the last empty seat on the subway, I'm not holding back.
Brandon Stanton
#50. The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
Patrick Macnee
#51. It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.
Robert Mundell
#52. I didn't want to go there [America] at 34 years old and for people to say he's only going for the money. It's not what I'm going out there to do
David Beckham
#53. The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.
Ronald Lauder
#54. I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.
Julie Bowen
#55. For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.
Emily Giffin
#56. I do my workouts in the morning, and often I'll take someone from my team. The person I'm meeting with can pick the class, whether it's a spin or barre class, or going for a power walk. It's hard to run and talk - I haven't mastered that yet.
Alexa Von Tobel
#57. I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.
Noel Redding
#58. You don't need to come from poverty to say growing up is tough. You can have everything in the world going for you and still feel the same loneliness and the same problems that a lot of kids have.
Justin Chatwin
#59. Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
Maiara Walsh
#60. Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.
Ben Bradlee
#61. We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.
Linda McCartney
#62. businesswoman and less like an artist. But apparently she'd gotten it wrong. Elle squared her shoulders and focused on what she had going for her. The work in her portfolio
Cleo Peitsche
#63. Sometimes it seems to me that, in the end, the only thing people have got going for them is imagination. At times of great darkness, everything around us becomes symbolic, poetic, archetypal. Perhaps this is what dreaming, and art, are for.
Helen Garner
#64. I tell people that going for a run is like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Ritalin because,
John J. Ratey
#65. No! Oh, my God, stop going for my nipples!" Aidan screamed, hitting all the high notes and making Lucifer shake his head in disgust as he reluctantly got up and headed for the living room where all the screaming was coming from.
R.L. Mathewson
#66. That's why I always keep a handful of silver glitter in my pockets. If I get pushed into a conversational corner I throw the glitter into the air, and while the person I'm talking to is distracted, I run away. An additional benefit is that I look like a cool magician, so I've got that going for me.
Jon Acuff
#67. When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"
Mike Royer
#68. Marissa, " he mumbled, taking her hand. "Don't want to see you drink so much?" Wait, not really what he'd been going for. "Ah...don't you to see me drink so much...want."
Whatever. God...he was so confused.~Butch
J.R. Ward
#69. If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!
Isabel Sanford
#70. Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want.
Michael Neill
#71. Alone and friendless, what would be his lot in the strange land to which he was going? For a time Joseph gave himself up to uncontrolled grief and terror. But, in the providence of God, even this experience was to be a blessing to him.
Ellen G. White
#72. I'm not even going to tell you what I think about what just happened in there. But I know it sucked and I have no idea why you aren't crying right now, but I know your heart hurts, and maybe even your pride. So fuck school. We're going for ice cream.
Colleen Hoover
#73. I love going for walks and like to do fun active things outdoors.
Miranda Kerr
#74. I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
Berkeley Breathed
#75. Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'Rourke
#76. I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but Vancouver is still home and always will be. I miss going for walks on the ocean with beautiful mountains.
Laura Mennell
#77. A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
Paul Klee
#78. The U.S. has to realize it's got so much going for it. Let's just get ourselves to come together as a team - one team running the country, helping that country to get itself back on stable footing, which then cascades to the rest of the world.
Mary Callahan Erdoes
#79. If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.
Peter Sarsgaard
#80. I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.
Chet Faker
#81. That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.
Brad Pitt
#82. Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
Edward Weston
#83. He heard bombs exploding like fireworks, and as if in a dream his father's face flashed before him, wanting to know what Alexander was doing near death's door before it was his time. He said, Dad, I'm going for her.
Paullina Simons
#84. There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#85. To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.
Gordie Howe
#86. It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.
David Baldacci
#87. Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it ... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.
Catherine Keener
#88. You know that Yeti-beard doesn't make you look more manly, right?" Dean says cheerfully as we walk out the door.
Tuck shrugs. "I was going for rugged, actually."
I snicker. "Well, it's not that, either, Babyface. You look like a mad scientist.
Elle Kennedy
#89. If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.
Marquis De Lafayette
#90. You talk here about greatness. I just wanted to ask if you could understand what it was we were going for. That there is greatness in the attempt - something in the trying. That in trying, we set up a certain scaffolding that a new generation can use to climb to heights we only dreamed of.
Liza Palmer
#91. Keep active - do something physical each day. Could be as simple as taking the dog out for a walk (if you've got a dog!), but could be going for a swim, or going to the gym every day.
Peter Kinderman
#92. The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
Iggy Pop
#93. I'm trying to be number one all the way around. It's not just the South, it's not just the East, it's not the West, I'm going for across the world, you know what I'm saying? This is where I'm coming from.
Ludacris
#94. She was desperate and she was choosey
at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what
she imagined herself to be.
Charles Bukowski
#95. I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
Wendy Kopp
#96. With 9:36 left in the game, in retrospect we might have gone for two because we ended up with three more plays on offense the rest of the game. It's a lot easier looking back and analyzing going for two.
Dennis Franchione
#97. When you have something on your mind that you really have coming out of your brain ... just talking to the beat, it's pretty easy and it's a natural feeling and at this point in my career. That's what I'm going for, I just want things to be organic.
Ryan Montgomery
#98. The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.
Virat Kohli
#99. Fasten your belts and sharpen your arrows, we're going for a hunt! I'm single again!
Hamidreza Bagheri
#100. If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
Patton Oswalt
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