Goings-on Quotes

What is a Poet?...He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them. (William Wordsworth)
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. View quote
David Byrne
The game went on. John had understood nothing. Everything was too fast: the game, the other's talk, the goings-on in the street... View quote
Sten Nadolny
Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha. View quote
Norman Rockwell
That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: It made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse. View quote
Neal Stephenson