Top 100 Quotes About Last
#1. The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It's one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles.
Christian Scott
#2. Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias - boredom.
Arthur C. Clarke
#3. Bashing out the last note, she turned the guitar to the amp and let the feedback murder everyone's eardrums.
Tim McGregor
#4. Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection.
Tom Ford
#5. I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.
Thomas Keller
#6. and I realize I've never felt this, not to this degree, not like every moment is about to explode, like every breath could be our last, like every touch is enough to ignite the world.
Tahereh Mafi
#7. Ah, the pretty whisperers! It was very well When the leaves were thick and green, awhile ago
Leaves are secret-keepers; but since the last leaf fell There is nothing hidden from the eyes below.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
#8. When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.
John Baldessari
#9. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath for one last time and let his hand go. She saw his boat drifting away they both looked at each other and waved one last time before she could not see him anymore.
Akshay Vasu
#10. On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
Patricia Cornwell
#11. The last girl I went out with blew me off. Now I call her with lame excuses to see her, "Hey, did I leave a penny over there?"
David Spade
#12. For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.
Lauren Oliver
#13. Good teams focus on the task at hand. They don't care what's happened the last 13 days, they worry about today and they worry about getting better. That's what good teams do.
Mike Zimmer
#14. I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.
Tony Dorsett
#15. Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically ... there's an informality people often take for the absence of rules - which it's not.
Judith Martin
#16. All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,
it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.
Joe Johnston
#19. A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
William James
#20. Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.
Oswald Spengler
#21. Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.
Anna Lee
#23. He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.
Denis Johnson
#24. But painting houses wasn't unsatisfying work. You had your good karma jobs, your decent clients. It felt pretty good when you drove away on that last day, paid in full, having restored a little color to someone's shit-brown life.
Wally Lamb
#25. I think racing in Mexico will prove to be a great move for our sport in the future. The reaction we received from the fans last year was outstanding. The fans were unbelievable, and I expect the same reaction this year.
Kevin Harvick
#26. Two weeks of false starts, of too much cloud cover, of strong wind, of last minute mechanical doubts.
Exurb1a
#27. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.
Chris Murray
#30. We live in the last days, in the cold hearted and self centred world where people like you for what you can give or for what they can get from you. That's the world of today.
Euginia Herlihy
#31. The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.
Chet Atkins
#32. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
Viktor E. Frankl
#33. Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
Lee R. Raymond
#34. The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That's what I did.
Conan O'Brien
#35. First, however, and feeling real excitement at the thought, the good burst of adrenaline at last, Behringer wanted to dismantle the sockets and loosen his patient's eyes. Behringer
Jonathan Lethem
#36. I thought at last that it was time to roll up the crumpled skin of the day, with its arguments and its impressions and its anger and its laughter, and cast it into the hedge.
Virginia Woolf
#37. Well, we'll have to agree to disagree." I hated that phrase. It was code for, "I know you're too obtuse to ever see how I right I am, so to get any satisfaction out of this discussion, I'm going to pretend to be more reasonable than you. Oh, and get the last word in.
Jess Lourey
#38. Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
J.K. Rowling
#39. Where's your trident? I've only seen mermen with a trident that looks like a pitchfork," asked Alden.
"New technology. I upgraded last year to a disc implanted under the skin in my right hand. I don't miss having to carry that clumsy thing. Kept dropping it.
L.R.W. Lee
#40. She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.
Jenny Downham
#41. The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.
Slash
#42. As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing.
Euzhan Palcy
#43. Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
Alice Hoffman
#44. A relationship has to be nourished with passion, and built upon the foundation of trust, to be one that last a lifetime.
Ellen J. Barrier
#45. You should always say goodbye to the people you love before you walk away. Hug them and hold them tight like it is the last moment you have, because it just might be.
Jenna Alatari
#46. How are you?"
Rosa shrugged her shoulders. "My sister turned into a giant snake last night. And your cousin Tano - "
"Second cousin."
"He was there too. He was a tiger. I recognized him from his eyes. Then I fainted." She looked at him. "How does that sound?
Kai Meyer
#47. Sweetheart, by the time I'm done with you, sleep will be the last thing on your mind. I guarantee it.
Lauren Layne
#48. It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert Hubbard
#49. That's the day i decided to live every minute of every day like it might be my last.
M. Leighton
#50. his last act was to infect me with nightmares
Ransom Riggs
#51. I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tomorrows.
Atticus Poetry
#52. The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
Blaise Pascal
#53. But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we should live one way for some years, then try another.
Marilyn French
#54. Um, I'm pretty sure mistletoe means give a kiss,
not a blow job," I argue raising my eyebrows at him.
"No, it's a blow job. Santa changed it last year.
Carian Cole
#55. We'll never speak of 'last times,' Gilly, or where would any of us be? We'll always think of 'next' times. I shall trust Nancy next time, and next time and next time, and keep on trusting till I can trust her forever!
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#56. Maybe the earth will continue to spin, and the stars won't implode for a bazillion more years, but I know, with a certainty my stupid brain has done its best to ignore, that this moment - right here, with the people I love most - is not going to last.
Melissa Keil
#57. He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance
gallant, glorious, and quite mad.
Sharon Kay Penman
#58. For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.
Fabio Capello
#59. Her father, indulgent in his concern, had opened his library to her, and at last she could read to her heart's content. In all, these past few weeks had been some of the most peaceable of her life. She had the sense of existing inside a fragile pause, a moment of grace.
Helene Wecker
#60. I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.
Quentin Crisp
#61. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go,
And view the ocean leaning on the sky:
From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know,
And on the Lunar world securely pry.
John Dryden
#62. It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
Elbert Hubbard
#63. Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over many years and when I finally got to the last one, it didn't take much time.
Pankaj Mishra
#64. Peace and rest at length have come
All the day's long toil is past,
And each heart is whispering, 'Home,
Home at last.
Thomas Hood
#65. The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. ("Fear")
P.C. Wren
#66. Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.
Henry Rollins
#67. The match I struck shall not run dead
You're my first inhale, my last cigarette.
Mie Hansson
#68. The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo
Victoria Chang
#69. Energy Medicine is the last great frontier in medicine.
Mehmet Oz
#70. Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.
Jane Yolen
#71. I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me ... I learned my lesson.
Aaron Carter
#72. I think you'll find that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. That last part, of course, is essential. --Devyn DuChien
Chris Pavesic
#73. Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.
John C. Reilly
#74. You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.
Shannon L. Alder
#75. I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.
Nicholas Sparks
#76. To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
Carrie Brownstein
#77. Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone's control.
Seneca.
#78. Hearts are like Books. You cannot understand one by flipping the pages or by reading the last chapter
Alok Jagawat
#79. As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.
Tim Scott
#80. A business commentator who correctly announces that "the business did better this year because it had done poorly last year" is likely to have a short tenure on the air.
Daniel Kahneman
#81. Light came out of this river since - you say Knights? Yes, but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
Joseph Conrad
#82. Your happiness cannot depend on anyone. Your happiness is yours to build and enjoy. No one, absolutely no one, is indispensable in this life. Do not base your happiness on someone, base it on yourself and it will last much longer
Ariana Godoy
#83. The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
Cliff Stearns
#85. [O]ur needs were quite different; what grips me need hardly touch you at all, and vice versa; what is innocence in you may be guilt in me, and vice versa; what has no consequences for you may be the last nail in my coffin.
Franz Kafka
#86. I had a dream about you last night ... Unfortunately, it wasn't a dream.
Amy Summers
#87. It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time ...
Brian O'Driscoll
#89. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last.
Peter S. Beagle
#90. Last is D, the number of spatial dimensions. Due to interest in M-theory, physicists have returned to the question of whether life is possible in higher or lower dimensions.
Michio Kaku
#91. You know what happened to the last guy to make a pact with Lucifer, right?" "I thought he was still hosting American Idol." "Exactly," said Perp. "A fate worse than death.
Robert Kroese
#92. Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"
P. J. O'Rourke
#93. This kiss had to last Park forever.
It had to get him home.
He needed to remember it when he woke up scared in the middle of the night.
Rainbow Rowell
#94. He has added inches and fullness to his beard since his last visit. I'll say no more.
Gregory Maguire
#95. There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.
Lily Collins
#96. When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your all into it. When you end it with the perfect thought, it's like that perfect last stroke.
Drake
#97. I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.
Andrew Bird
#98. Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#99. I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.
Rodney Dangerfield
#100. Happiness cannot last, he thought. It is too intense.
Wilbur Smith
