Top 100 The Last One Sayings
#1. Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.
Ruth Rendell
#2. When you talk about revolution, it's very easy to romanticize picking up a gun or marching in the street, but I think before we take any of those actions, violence of course being the last one, we first have to have a revolution of the mind.
Immortal Technique
#3. I always have a moment when I know I'm designing the last costume that gets made for a movie, and it's always been floating up there, but it's kind of the last one. That's always probably the hardest one for me.
Colleen Atwood
#4. If yer after a husband, forget it, he says. I seen what you did to the last one.
Moira Young
#5. Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one.
Jim Rohn
#6. Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
Mary Tyler Moore
#7. Yeah, I'm certainly a lot more confident on this one than I was one the last one, which I think can be a good thing and a bad thing. But, at least I slept while making this film.
Guy Ritchie
#8. Then why don't you and Bubba have girlfriends? (Nick)
I don't want the drama of it. After the last one burnt up all my clothes with my Jack Daniel's Black Label collection and tried to decapitate me with my CDs, I decided I'd take a hiatus for a bit. (Mark)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#9. It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what's happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.
David Eagleman
#10. I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
Parker Stevenson
#11. If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.
Saleh Al-Mutlaq
#12. I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.
Li Na
#13. The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
Bertolt Brecht
#14. The last one was a bitch. this one was three bitches and a bastard
George R R Martin
#16. I'm very unphysical and graceless so basically if you save 10 people to be with you in a resistance movement, you would never save me. I'd be the last one.
Connor Jessup
#17. If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
Sylvia Earle
#18. Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick.
Jakob Dylan
#19. The low E is at the top, the second string is A, then it's D, G, B, and the last one is high E." A mnemonic device he once heard came to mind and, plucking the strings, he said, "Eddie Ate Dynamite ... Good Bye Eddie,.
Rachel Harris
#20. The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
Terry Pratchett
#21. I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.
Bob Dylan
#22. I grew up expecting to see the first man land on the moon. It never occurred to me that I'd see the last one. We thought there'd be a moon base.
Terry Pratchett
#23. Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.
Nora Ephron
#24. In Japan if you say "the war," people know you mean World War II, because that was the last one that Japan fought in. In America it's different. America is constantly fighting wars all over the place, so you have to be more specific.
Ruth Ozeki
#25. You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.
D.E.M. Emrys
#26. I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for [fame]. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.
Zach Galifianakis
#27. It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
Eddie Campbell
#28. Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three
She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me
Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening
Lick the blood that covers me
She's the last one standing
"Roulette"
Collateral Damage, Track 11
Gayle Forman
#29. Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being alive, is a living thing. It's every breath you take. That was the last one. It'll never come back. You are riding on this wave of awareness, second to second to second.
Daphne Zuniga
#30. No matter how many rainbows you see, the last one you saw always seems the best.
Jason Pinnington
#31. No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them.
Monica Dickens
#32. I love to read and you should read percy kackson & the olympians the last one the best
Rick Riordan
#33. I can't do negative, needy, or narcissistic anymore. Oh wait, I can still do the last one, aw nuts.
Bob Saget
#34. It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I was doing would probably be the last one I would get. I really never thought that I stacked up with the other girls.
Christie Brinkley
#35. I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garret Dillahunt
#37. You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#38. You can never imagine my surprise when I realized that you weren't just the next one - you were the last one.
Georgia Cates
#39. I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
Jon Crosby
#40. An apology, even as sincere as the one she had just received, could repair not one hour of the suffering she had endured over the last one hundred years, but ... her thoughts trailed away from her and her mouth fell open.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#41. I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.
Zedd
#43. The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.
Elijah Wood
#44. It seems like people need to get into the last album until they can tolerate the next one. And then, slowly but surely, by the time the new one's available, they've gotten into the last one and they really love it.
Rob Brown
#45. It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It's just like an auction; the only one stuck is the last one.
Will Rogers
#46. The first 'Half-Life' movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses.
Marc Laidlaw
#47. If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.
Meg Greenfield
#48. Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
Cormac McCarthy
#49. I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.
Ian Brown
#50. Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'
Dick Dale
#51. My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
Stephen Ambrose
#52. Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the Hunters. The last one to see this camp ... " She looked at Zoe. "Which one was it?"
That boy in Colorado," Zoe said. "You turned him into a jackalope."
Ah, yes." Artemis nodded, satisfied. "I enjoy making jackalopes ...
Rick Riordan
#53. We go through life in our little boxes until we find ourselves in the last one, buried in the ground.
Robert J. Crane
#54. Let me just say that I now know what it feels like to be the last one to show up a party. There is no grand entrance or fireworks. Just a fizzle and lots of weird looks.
Julie A. Rainey
#55. The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.
Kathleen Madigan
#56. When I played with Michael Jordan on the Olympic team, there was a huge gap between his ability and the ability of the other great players on that team. But what impressed me was that he was always the first one on the floor and the last one to leave.
Steve Alford
#57. You kind of never leave Arsenal. How many comebacks do you make? At one point it will turn out to be a bad move. We all love the first Rocky but I'm not too sure about the last one.
Thierry Henry
#58. "So what's it tonight?" she asked. "Tag? Hide and seek? Fetch?"
I gave a soft growl at the last one and she laughed.
"Someday, I'm going to teach you to fetch," she said.
Kelley Armstrong
#59. I was a very nice boy. I was well-educated ... very Catholic family. So I was very respectful, never late at work. I was always the last one to leave. It's always been that way in my life.
Riccardo Tisci
#60. And so creation itself is eagerly watching the sons and daughters of the King, waiting for the last one to come into the kingdom so that the rocks and trees can be set free.
Matt Chandler
#61. I had a familiar, nervous sensation, one that goes all the way back to elementary school. It's the simultaneous realization that I may have talked my way into another fistfight, and that I had not spent any time learning to fight since the last one.
David Wong
#62. This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
Will Rogers
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. They say you can't read the next chapter of your life, if you keep re reading the last one. But then every car has a rear-view mirror.
Anonymous
#68. You cannot start a new chapter until you close the last one.
Alok Jagawat
#69. A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent ... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.
David Einhorn
#70. I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
Bobby Farrelly
#71. We will see at the end of the day. I don't like to speculate. Our goal in this election is to do better than in the last one.
Helen Zille
#72. People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!
Michael Ruhlman
#73. A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.
Mason Cooley
#74. Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
Bernard Cornwell
#75. We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God
Mother Teresa
#76. Hector had no virtue?" "Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one." "We all do," Aeneas remarked.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#77. TV, a Pioneer in the series they had to stop making because it was too expensive, too good for the price they commanded. Truls had got the last one, bought with money he had earned by burning evidence against a pilot who had been smuggling heroin for Asayev.
Jo Nesbo
#78. No, I don't have a boyfriend. I stabbed the last one.
Suzanne Young
#79. Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
Ambrose Bierce
#80. Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.
Pablo Picasso
#81. It's funny,' I noted in the diary, 'how often I seem to build a story around one sentence, nearly always the last one, too. The themes are a bit depressing but I just can't get rid of that.
Daphne Du Maurier
#82. When you fall; it's not the ending; It's the next chance to perform better than the last one
Harishankar Kaushik
#83. Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society.
Christopher Buckley
#84. A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
Jane Jacobs
#85. Here at work, obviously, I make the most money of anyone on the show, so I try to be the first one here and the last one to leave. I have the crummiest office. I try to balance things out, spread it around.
Jay Leno
#86. If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.'
Ronald Kessler
#87. When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.
Erykah Badu
#88. This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."
I frowned, "What's that?"
"Homework.
Richelle Mead
#89. If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
Barry Commoner
#90. A lot of people ask me what my favorite episode of Full House was, I always tell them: it was the last one!
Bob Saget
#91. I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.
Paul Simon
#92. That's how it'll go down. Those will be the last words of the last one left. I am human.
Rick Yancey
#93. We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we'll see.
Andre Gide
#94. I feel the same way about every album. I think it's better than the one before. I have a strong feeling that you can't put out a record until you hate the last one you did because you have to make it better.
Jordan Buckley
#95. You want to finish something when it's good. You don't want to be the last one at the party!
Emilie De Ravin
#96. If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
Jodi Picoult
#97. A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
Chuck Norris
#98. I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?
Sheryl Lee Ralph
#99. To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.
Jean Kerr
#100. It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
Sally Mann
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