Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorrie Moore

When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with...

Liza Minnelli

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

Markus Zusak

There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange. Something about a kiss. Something about a Saumensch. How many times did she have to say goodbye?

Markus Zusak

Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you." -Liesel

Markus Zusak

She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.

Mary Karr

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

Johnny Mercer

There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly...Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.

Mitch Albom

Dor shook his head. “The phrase. What does it mean?” Sarah wondered if he was kidding. “Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you’re saying goodbye and it’s like no time passed at all?” His eyes drifted. He liked it. “Time flies.” “With you,” she added.

Mitch Albom

If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

Neil Gaiman

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

Neil Gaiman

Goodbyes are overrated.

Marcus Buckingham

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

Michael Stuhlbarg

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

Michael Palin

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

Michael Easton

I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out.

Patsy Cline

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

Ray Charles

Goodbye don't mean gone.

Snoop Dogg

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.

Jodi Picoult

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

John Green

I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one.

If the water is going to run you off, you might as well kiss it (the fort) goodbye.

It wasn't a goodbye speech by any means. It sounded like nothing ever happened.

Ken Venturi

It was my last hurrah to win in my hometown. Harding was a special place to say goodbye.

I've known these guys for a long time so, of course, I'll miss them. We've cried, laughed, made memories.

It was shocking. It was really bad. And, you know, I can't help thinking of this person who said, 'Goodbye, I'll see you tonight.' And then no more.

Dakota Fanning

The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.

I never got to say goodbye to him,

Jack Kerouac

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

Jack Kerouac

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

Jack Kerouac

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Galway Kinnell

Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.

Franz Kafka

And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

Erica Jong

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.