Lasts Quotations | Page 8

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

I'm gonna live today like this is my last day.. :)

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

Now I understand,” said the last man.

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

Before checking that last email before you go to bed, say to yourself, No, I am important. This is important. My body is more important.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.

When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop.

The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't make much difference." "His name is Montgomery Montgomery?" Klaus said, smiling. "Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.

The last safe place is safe no more.

You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.

I've always been really interested in the future, and I feel like all of the movies that I've been exposed to, over the course of the last 20 to 30 years, have shown me a future that I don't really want to be living in.

Bush said the unemployment situation is turning around. Last week alone, 5,000 people started working for John Kerry.

I'm very unphysical and graceless so basically if you save 10 people to be with you in a resistance movement, you would never save me. I'd be the last one.

No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.

We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those banks and the equity holders in those banks. We could have talked about forcing those investors to take some serious hits on their risky dealings. The idea that taxpayer dollars go in first rather than last - after the equity has been used up - is shocking.

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.

The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

The most terrible things end, at last.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

Do you believe in love after last sight?

My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged at the turn of the last century. We are a whole century behind in absorbing the leaps that quantum theory made for the human mind.

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

I'm scared to fall in love, afraid to love so fast, cuz everytime I fall in love, it seems to never last.

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world...

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

The external motivation lasts maybe one or two plays ? I?m just directing things a little bit. We needed to shake things up a bit and just get back to the basics and fundamentals.

Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

May your first word be adventure and last word love.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time...

Jesse [James]was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious - however, he perpetuated this myth. Our film [The Assassination of Jesse James ] really takes place at the end of all that, the last year of his life, at the end of all that celebrity.

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.

In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

I know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary.

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.