Closing Lines Quotes

#1. Thus they in mutual accusation spent
The fruitless hours, but neither self - condemning;
And of their vain contest' appeared no end.
(The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.)

John Milton

#2. The ground on which you once stood is cut away. You have become a citizen of No Man's Land. I send you my greetings.
the closing lines of Smiley's letter to Karla persuading him to defect.

John Le Carre

#3. I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I've let people down. I've apologized in more songs than 'Back to the Shack.' Going back to our second record, the closing lines are 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.' It's definitely part of my personality.

Rivers Cuomo

#4. Only the insecure strive for security.

Wayne Dyer

#5. Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.

Christopher Reeve

#6. Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Andy Van Slyke

#7. Jason's my friend," I said quietly, "but he's not a Viral. He's not part of my pack. He'll never mean as much to me as you do."
Ben's eyes snapped to meet mine. He started intently. I felt my cheeks burn.

Kathy Reichs

#8. If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.

Leo Szilard

#9. In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

Jimi Hendrix

#10. I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

Joseph Heller

#11. You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

Aaron Lazar

#12. I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

Kate Williams

#13. It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

Judi Dench

#14. Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.

Boozoo Chavis

#15. People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.

Randy Bachman

#16. You can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones. Ultimately, the real question is whether you want to be happy.

Chris Hadfield

#17. I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.

Riaad Moosa

#18. The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Frank Zappa