Top 525 Gone Quotes

A word is an arbitrary label – that’s the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don’t snicker: Would you ever say, ‘Nothing has gone wrong yet’ without looking for wood to knock?
Steven Pinker
I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.
Joe Biden
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
Rudyard Kipling
Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it’s all about cloud computing, and we’re still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.
Parker Harris
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter Scott
Even clingfilm – if it’s gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.
Joanna Lumley
Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker’s departments, there is absolute chaos.
Bill Scott
Looking back, I’m so proud to have gone to five Olympics – I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.
Gail Devers
Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them – the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
Don Bluth
I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn’t gone that well with the crew… so I replaced it with tequila.
Hugh Laurie
‘Kaaka Muttai’ has gone places. It’s a great feeling. There is respect from family and friends. The film has travelled to international festivals, and I was able to meet big directors.
Aishwarya Rajesh
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes – or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two – is gone.
Omar Khayyam
I think it’s one of the more underrated careers out there. A lot of times it wasn’t the flashiest stuff, but I’ve gone out there, I’ve had great streaks, I won the light heavyweight belt.
Ryan Bader
As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it’s ‘whoosh!’
Jeff Lynne
There’s so many things that I’ve gone through that I want to share because there’s other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.
Sabrina Carpenter
I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
Michael Caine
My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.
Carrot Top
Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That’s kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that’s kind of not the case anymore.
Michael Imperioli
The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can’t catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren’t enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?
George Crook
A new procurement policy had to be brought in 2016. Subsequent to it, procurement has gone up rapidly.
Nirmala Sitharaman
Green Arrow has gone through so many changes; he’s been right-wing, he’s been left-wing, he’s been rich, he’s been poor, he’s been a social justice guy, then when I got him, he was a rich playboy guy. So it was a lot harder to get into a character that has so many personas in the past, and I just looked at his anger.
Ann Nocenti
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Thomas Moore
You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Bob Dylan
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
Hopefully I’ve gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed.
Leonardo DiCaprio
I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

I haven’t ever gone to any Mensa meetings.
Geena Davis
Despite some of the stories that have gone around, I’ve never had a big, flouncey strop about how much I’m paid. Considering I have a pretty interesting life out of making telly, I’m really paid quite well for it. So I’m not complaining.
James May
Your aspiration is really for the country to be better. I think that’s exactly what I’ve gone through – a Filipino who may live elsewhere but who cares just as much for the country.
Grace Poe
Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon – they’re all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.
John Heard
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
Jacques Chirac
Braddock looks every bit the deserted battlefield it truly is: 90 percent of our town’s people, buildings, businesses, and homes are gone and what remains, bears witness to the torment.
John Fetterman
Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they’re gone, they’re gone.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
We’ve got to map all of our ancient history before it’s gone because, let’s face it, if we don’t have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?
Sarah Parcak
If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you’re progressing until you step back and see how high you’ve really gone.
Donny Osmond
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I’m gone.
Steven Wright
It is interesting that I have gone through the process of representing clients as an ex-athlete. I am certainly not naive to think that the possibility of corruption isn’t there.
B. J. Armstrong
Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
Lou Holtz
We act as romantics before the camera to make people understand there is actually no love once the freshness is gone in certain journey of life.
Koel Mallick
We’re in a good position with the Red Bull juniors. When I look around at what other schemes there are, Red Bull has invested a huge amount in youth and should be commended for giving these guys the opportunity that might otherwise have gone missing.
Christian Horner
The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.
Gioconda Belli
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn’t have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.
Esther Williams
I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.
Tan Cheng Bock
We’ve gone overboard on every Queen album. But that’s Queen.
Freddie Mercury
You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.
Virat Kohli
It’s more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren’t formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who’ve told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
Cameron Crowe
If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.
Louis Begley
One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don’t change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don’t want to believe what we know.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn’t like you, you are gone.
Howard Hawks
All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.
Eddie Campbell
The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.
Sean Bean
What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it’s where the pirates were. But they’re all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!
John Hench
But acting is very much a profession that is you’re hot one moment and not the next – and that is totally cool. I think that’s what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it – is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
Keira Knightley
Looking back, I’m so proud to have gone to five Olympics – I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.
Gail Devers
I honestly think if I would’ve tied my suit and there wouldn’t have been any water rushing through it, I think I could’ve gone at least a second faster.
Ryan Lochte
Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, ‘I guess it’s true I’m not good at a one-night stand,’ you know, I just can’t explain the feeling. It’s unreal. You feel like you’ve just read your diary to thousands of people and they’ve gone, ‘It’s okay. We still love you.’
Sam Smith