Lasts Quotes - Page 63

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second.

Basically, nice guys can finish last.

Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner; the blade; the last-minute reprieve; the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees.

However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.

It's been so long since you last saw each other. She could at least smile.

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it.

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen

Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely." First, last, and always.

Grass grows at last above all graves.