Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Scruton

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

Robert Shaw

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

Sarah Monette

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.

Samuel Johnson

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Ryan Adams

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

Ruth Gordon

To be somebody, you must last.

Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Tom Robbins

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

Tony Fernandes

Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.

Vanessa Marano

When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

Tariq Ramadan

I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus Hudud should only be for the absolutely last resort.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

Shere Hite

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

Steven Pressfield

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Robert Browning

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

Rube Goldberg

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Rex Stout

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

Rick Riordan

The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.

Trent Lott

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

Trenton Lee Stewart

In other words, you are our last possible hope. You are our only hope.

Steve Womack

Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.

Vince Lombardi

Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.

T. S. Eliot

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Sylvia Earle

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

Ray LaHood

The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

Taylor Swift

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

Stephenie Meyer

I'm just here to be your friend. Your best friend, one last time.

Wallace Stevens

Disillusion is the last illusion.

Vincent Nichols

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

William Blake

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Samuel Richardson

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

William Cowper

The beggarly last doit.