The Last Word And Other Stories Quotes

#1. Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

E.L. James

#2. Too much thinking is a bad thing sometimes.

Phil Simms

#3. The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema ...

Derek Jarman

#4. An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Sarah Dessen

#5. The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land ... it surprised me ... I thought I had forgotten about this land. But I hadn't ... Maybe Afghanistan hadn't forgotten me either.

Khaled Hosseini

#6. Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#7. My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

Tyler Florence

#8. It's easy to forget how to appreciate your front door when you're always walking through it

Alex Gaskarth

#9. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Herman Melville

#10. Ignore everything people say about you. Just live life the way you feel is good. As long as you feel fabulous.

Janice Liang

#11. We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.

Graham Greene

#12. One of the top selections for its steady growth and defensive nature of its business. Economies may ebb and flow, but the number of incarcerated Americans is steadily growing according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Matt Taibbi

#13. Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity ... edit one more time!

C.K. Webb

#14. Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

David Talbot

#15. I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind.

Peter S. Beagle

#16. It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have to have the last word.

Sarah Dessen