Quotes About Ending Speeches

#1. Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

Jonathan Rauch

#2. I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Laura Hillenbrand

#3. We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played.

Leo Kottke

#4. If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#5. So far I have felt like a very inept slapstick performer." "Inept slapstick? Isn't that a bit redundant?

Neal Stephenson

#6. How we need another soul to cling to.

Sylvia Plath

#7. I needed to become a fully functional, contributing member of my life

Vicki Wilson

#8. Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Karin Slaughter

#9. I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

Tahereh Mafi

#10. My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

Gary Clark Jr.

#11. Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

Gerald Durrell

#12. To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Lin Yutang

#13. But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

James Weldon Johnson