Quotes of: Last-year Keyword

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

Yakov Smirnoff

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

Diane Mott Davidson

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

Derek Jacobi

I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.

Ernie Harwell

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Francis Picabia

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

Lindsey Vonn

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

Tom Hicks

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

Jo Brand

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

People who's freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.

Crash

Do they listen?" He held up a finger. "Every year does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only did twelve. I try to get one a year.

Cutting for Stone

[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.

Diaries: The Python Years, 1969-1979

Begin your new year by making a commitment to yourself. Rediscover your passion. What sets your heart on fire? And do something about it. Take action. Today. Now.

Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of those thousand years. Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile?

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure

He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

Galápagos