Lasts Quotes - Page 77

The most terrible things end, at last.

And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

I still skate occasionally but last time I did, at our show in Hanford, I did a 360 frontside varial over our rolled-up banner and broke every damn bone in my body. Ok, I only broke one bone. Well, I didn't break any bones, but I could have!

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase.

All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may not be seen (except afterwards, by historians) until the last great step. In many cases the full potentiality and force of a most radical step in such a sequence of transformations may not even be manifest to its author.

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

The first, the middle and the last thing to do is to pray.

I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.

You're only as good as your last story.

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.

In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.