My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.
I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.
Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'
Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.
I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.
It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
