Lasts Quotes - Page 126

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.

I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do.

Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

You want to finish something when it's good. You don't want to be the last one at the party!

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

She whispered, 'C'etait la Verite?' Was that Verity? Or perhaps she just meant, Was that the truth? Was it true? Did any of it really happen? Were the last three hours real? 'Yes,' I whispered back. 'Oui. C'etait la verite.

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

You've changed," he said. "You're-uh-" "Yes?" "Taller." "I hope so. I was ten the last time you saw me." "And your hair's really dark now-and short," he added.

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must all unite in one road at the last. It is only Omniscience that can decide. And it will then be found that no sect is excluded because of its faith.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

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.

The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in almost every single court that has had this sort of national-security case - that they have become markedly more skeptical.