Credits Roll Quotes

#1. I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best. We sniffle and indulge in product placement for Kleenex. The credits roll.

Thomm Quackenbush

#2. When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

Saina Nehwal

#3. I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll.

Donald Miller

#4. Well,' he said, 'we think you probably do.' When I imagine this scene as part of a movie, the minute of silence after my father says this is extended for an hour or so, and then the credits roll.

John Darnielle

#5. Sorry, boyfriends everywhere - you're doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd's abs and Quinton's biceps, your girl will be ready for takeoff as soon as the credits roll. You're welcome.

Tammara Webber

#6. There are certain rules to be observed when writing about our parents. We can only describe them as transparent figures with golden haloes, smiling down at us from heaven, large flag billowing in the breeze optional, just before the end credits roll.

Jessica Zafra

#7. But this wasn't a movie. In life, we didn't get to have credits roll to tell us when we'd come to the end of our epiphany arc. To know when to applaud. In life, there were no credits, no sound tracks. In life, things often didn't work out.

Kim Culbertson

#8. Even the nuns went racist after the convent was reappraised and it seemed their pension fund was in jeopardy.

George Saunders

#9. The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.

Matthew McConaughey

#10. Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

Stephen Hawking

#11. I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

J.K. Rowling

#12. I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

Christian Cooke

#13. Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business.

Jan Brewer

#14. If stupidity were a gift, only a few would have it.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. My feet hurt, Hell-Bard."
"Good for you."
"My wrists hurt too."
"Fascinating."
... "You're a bastard.

Susan Dennard

#16. There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

John Catsimatidis

#17. But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It's a mistake of emphasis.

Nicholson Baker

#18. I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

Gayle Forman

#19. The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

James Joyce

#20. Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#21. And I squinted hard trying to see Nikki's face and even from a block away I could tell she was smiling the whole time and was so very happy , and some how that was enough for me to officially end apart time and roll the credits of my movie without even confronting Nikki .

Matthew Quick

#22. Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death.

Paul Doiron

#23. Happy ending roll credits
pick our way out, over
crushed pieces of popcorn
to emerge
into the glaring light of day

Kelly Bingham

#24. The only cure for grief is action.

George H. Lewis

#25. I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

Criss Jami

#26. His body had never been found. How could they not have secretly hoped he might come home, no matter how impossible they knew it was?

Scott Cawthon

#27. We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet. William Butler Yeats

Jack Kornfield