Last Call Song Quotes

#1. Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.

Conor Oberst

#2. No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

Nick Hanauer

#3. You've got a lovely everything.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Morton Hunt

#5. What was true and solid begins to slide, dissolve.
Your thoughts unravel faster than a satin ribbon
Whose edge hasn't been burned
Until you sit amidst a tangle of limp, pink threads,
Unable to reason
At all.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#6. I started drinking when I was like 15, and by the time I was 19 everybody knew I was an alcoholic. So I would start five fights every weekend and lose terribly. First you start off fighting with one person and then he beats you up; and then one guy would be laughing, so you would hit him, too.

Felipe Esparza

#7. Each of is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you could see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you would see something like radio waves billions of them, cascading constantly into very complex patterns all over the earth.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Sometime love is about letting go

Sushil Singh

#9. This is my one last call and lullaby for this eternity. All of my medicine.

Nicholaus Patnaude

#10. You think I'm not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you'll burn.

Margaret Atwood

#11. If you didn't show me, I wouldn't stare.

Ratt

#12. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Alexander Pope

#13. The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

John Steinbeck

#14. Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!

Jim Cummings

#15. I do not mind Bedouins, - I am not afraid of them; because neither Bedouins nor ordinary Arabs have shown any disposition to harm us, but I do feel afraid of my own comrades.

Mark Twain

#16. [We do some TV talk. He loves Seinfeld, thinks Friends is a little gooey.

David Lipsky

#17. Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.

Charlton Ogburn

#18. I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

Princess Margaret

#19. worn out desk chair squeaked in protest as he leaned back. "Have your folks ever taken you to see a physician for your

Matthew Keith