Last Quotes

The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

My last fight wasn't the way I wanted it to go so there is a hole there; don't count me out.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to get myself into the right mind frame.

There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

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

That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.

I start where the last man left off.