Famous quotes containing the word gonna:
“They was givin me ten thousand watts a day, you know, and Im hot to trot. Next woman takes me on gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars.”
—Laurence Hauben, U.S. screenwriter, Bo Goldman, and Milos Forman. Randall McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)
“When John Henry was a little fellow,
You could hold him in the palm of your hand,
He said to his pa, When I grow up
Im gonna be a steel-driving man.
Gonna be a steel-driving man.”
—Unknown. John Henry (l. 15)
“Listen to me. You come into this town, and you think youre headed somewhere, dont you? You think youre gonna get there with a gun, but youre not. Get me. You know why, cause you got thousand dollar bills pasted right across your eyes. And someday youre gonna stumble and fall down in the gutter, right where the horses have been standin, right where you belong.”
—Ben Hecht (18931964)