Lasts Quotes

• As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Long
  • Voice
  • Should

• Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.

  

  William Powell
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Guests

• I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Women
  • Ease
  • Flash

• We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • World
  • Men
  • Peace

• If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

  

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • History
  • Past
  • Period

• I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Onions

• I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Sleep
  • Forever

• Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Home
  • Business
  • Nails

• I started hitting the ball a lot better a few weeks ago, and just the putter wasn't working. And putting a new putter in the bag last week, it just helped.

  

  Retief Goosen
  • Lasts
  • Hitting
  • Bags

• I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I take on, I'm challenged to go deeper than the last time, and then again deeper than the last time. This is the deepest I've ever been asked to dive. And to see how deep I actually went for this, and that I wasn't afraid to go there in order to give Tyler exactly what he envisioned for the character, which was pretty deep, that's what I discovered about myself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Pretty

• Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Looks
  • Lasts
  • Each Day

• Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.

  

  John Watson
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Lasts

• I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Career
  • Creative
  • Careers

• If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Done
  • Failure
  • Minutes

• Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

  

  Åse Agneta Fältskog ABBA
  • Lasts
  • Awful
  • ABBA

• Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Serious
  • Firsts
  • Amusement

• In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Abortion

• The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Country
  • Age
  • Pleasure

• A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Purpose
  • Track
  • Albums

• Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Cliche
  • Plague
  • Superlatives

• It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Time
  • She
  • Death

• You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • Made
  • Critics
  • Albums

• I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever

  

  Laura Ashley
  • Forever
  • Lasts
  • Ephemeral

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