Went Quotes

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. (George Orwell)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. View quote
George Carlin
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs. View quote
Kurt Cobain
I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. View quote
Samuel Pepys
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. View quote
John Lennon
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. View quote
Steven Wright
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. View quote
Steven Wright
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to and encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. View quote
Indra Nooyi
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. (P. D. James)
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes. View quote
Imelda Marcos
I often went to bed without supper 'cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat. View quote
Maurice Sendak
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. View quote
Omar Khayyám
In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
I went to a fight the other day and a hockey game broke out. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. View quote
Jonathan Winters
I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. View quote
Steven Spielberg
When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends. (Frank Frazetta)
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it. View quote
Grace Hopper
I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway. View quote
Amy Winehouse
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. View quote
Jack Kerouac