"What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born."
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"Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen."
"Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better."
"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."
"I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos."
"You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow."
"Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals."
"Trust one who has gone through it."
"The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains."
"I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone."
"My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone."
"My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself."
"Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were."
"A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone."
"To boldly go where no one has gone before"
"We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time."
"We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!"
"Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can create a sensation, and accordingly their report becomes not only a careless one, but hopelessly distorted."
"While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone."
"I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence."