Quotes of: Last-year Keyword

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.

Love

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Victor Hugo

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

Vanessa Marano

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Vivienne Westwood

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

William Boyd

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Winston Churchill

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

W.S. Merwin

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

John Keats

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

Bjork

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

Omari Hardwick

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

Judy Gold

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, th...

Angle of Repose

There was once an abbot who had spent thirty-nine years alone in the temple with cats as his only companions. As someone who believed that faith and willpower could conquer any difficulty, the abbot began training newborn kittens, trying to turn the ...

Teaching Cats to Jump Hoops

A man can never be perfect in a hundred years; but he may become corrupt in less than a day.

Chinese

It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.

Dutch

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English

I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a...

In the Country of Last Things

Sarah, though, was still sometimes ruled by stark pain, lost to everything else. Grief slipped away, only to attack from behind. It changed shape endlessly. It lacerated her, numbed her, stalked her, startled her, caught her by the throat. It deceive...

Every Last Cuckoo

Keep in mind that when we limit our exposure to information, or when information itself is scarce, our picture of reality suffers. We become oblivious to both opportunities and hazards. Trends become invisible. History disappears. It's really just tw...

First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department