1,646 Quotes About Lasts

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

I'll say it one last time: Be brave.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

In the '80s, I loved the movies of the '70s. Also I remember loving Klute [1971]. I loved Jane Fonda. Actually, I auditioned for the last movie she made before she retired for a while, Stanley and Iris [1990], which Martha Plimpton got.

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.