Famous Quotes & Sayings

Regina Brett

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Thomas Keneally

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

Richard MacDonald

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

Rene Descartes

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

Thomas Browne

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Storm Jameson

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Steve Jobs

I have enough to last for the rest of my life.

Steve Jobs

If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing?...If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change.

Steve Crocker

Usenet is 'the last uncensored mass medium.'

Roger Mahony

Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.

William Cowper

The beggarly last doit.

Vladimir Nabokov

for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

Wolfgang Puck

Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment.