Lasts Quotes

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.

But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.

The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.

That evil can never be great which is the last.

Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.

The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.

What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.

Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.

I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.

Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.

Violence is my last option.

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.' And why is that, Percy Jackson?' Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.

I love Merion and I don't even know her last name.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

Nothing lasts forever but we always try, and I just can't help but wonder why we let it pass us by

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

I had my appendix out when I was 11, and that was the last time I was in a hospital. That was a one-night deal. So I've spent basically one night in a hospital.

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

Be not the first to take up the new, nor the last to cast the old aside.

I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.

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

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.