Best Lasts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.”

Feelings Lasts Garden London Hotel Warmth Favourite Last Time Blake Covent Garden

Author:Diego Luna

“I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.”

Real Lasts Fans Huge Seasons Agents Estates Small Parts Estate Agents

Author:Jane Lynch

“Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.”

Knows Writing Stills Real Jobs Lasts Religious Organization Therapy God Knows

Author:Jenny Lawson

“If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.”

Ifs Stills Lasts Social Century Building Products

Author:Max Levchin

“I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.”

Two Lasts Film Busy Harry Potter Grey Potters Anatomy Grey's Anatomy Harry Potter Film

Author:Kevin McKidd

“Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.”

Real Use School Lasts Names Fatty

Author:Lea Michele

“Basically, nice guys can finish last.”

Lasts Guy Nice Nice Guy

Author:Lee Meriwether

“The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.”

Thinking Years Kind Persons Made Stills Lasts Film Absurd Repeats Walt

Author:Leonard Maltin

“The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.”

Want Lasts Sides Community Impression Sectarianism

Author:Mary McAleese

“A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.”

Years Lasts Lost Dying Terrible Ten Seven Eight Closest Getting Old Terrible Things

Author:Norman MacCaig

“And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.”

Way Years Sometimes Helping Happens Lasts Passion Literature Particular Poet Great Passion

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.”

Bigs Lasts Used Literature Boys Century Great Love Dostoyevsky

Author:Norman MacCaig

“Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.”

Years Firsts Lasts Used Havens You Like It

Author:Pedro Martinez

“The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.”

World Needs Lasts Faces Turns

Author:Peter Mandelson

“I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.”

Years Art Lasts Particular Creating Selling Legacy Lasting Collectors Bronze Lasting Legacy

Author:Richard MacDonald

“Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.”

I Can Different Character Would Be Jobs Lasts Actors Easy Challenges Veins Challenging Myself

Author:Richard Madden

“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.”

Thinking States Lasts Three Hours United United States Saws Week Minutes Media Average Radio Variety Surveys Electronic Media

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.”

People Believe Lasts Law Church Absolutes Sacraments Resorts Sanctions Depriving

Author:Roger Mahony

“I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.”

Feels Years Two Play Lasts Sports Support Fans Huge Proud Golf British Two Years Championship Appreciated Affinity Sports Fan

Author:Rory McIlroy

“If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.”

Ifs Years Ideas Lasts Normal Discovery Cancer Versions Genes Oncology

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.”

Thinking Way Today Pain Lasts Century Changed Amount Treats Patient Cancer Enormous Relief Providing Physicians Psychics Solace Pain Relief Treating Patients

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.”

Ifs Feels Years Wells Real Home Might Lasts Sports Good Times Last Year Having A Good Time

Author:Sterling Marlin

“Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.”

Writing Years Children Lasts Regret Consumers I Regret Layman

Author:John Noble

“What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.”

Feels Years Lasts

Author:Ben Nicholson

“The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.”

Lasts Rights Security Department Protected Homeland Homeland Security Department Of Homeland Security

Author:Janet Napolitano

“I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.”

Trying Lasts Fighting Standing

Author:Li Na

“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”

“That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.”

Years Shows Problem Kids Lasts Night Fans Band Bars Every Night

Author:Mojo Nixon

“It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.”

Knows Lasts Three Easy Difficult Taxes Paid Bills Congress Accomplish Alternatives Minimum Simplification

Author:Richard Neal

“I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.”

People Looks Lasts Humble Noses Shops

Author:Bruce Oldfield

“Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.”

Lasts Actors Pieces Involved Conversation Tools Productions Puzzles

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.”

Years Able Lasts Hated Locked

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.”

Thinking Lasts Used Support Cost Band Paid Our Family Fund Gigs Misfits

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.”

Years Wells Shows Lasts Interesting Careers Records Havens Very Good Pops Consistently

Author:John Otway

“Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.”

Care Lasts Winning Taken Five Plans Greatness Republican Percent Assuming Divinity Rolling Momentum Zealot

Author:Keith Olbermann

“Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.”

Children Jobs Lasts Parent Class Economy Modern Middle Building Understood Our Children Investment Middle Class Grandparent Billionaire Rebuilding Parents And Grandparents

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.”

Lasts Song Mets International Singers Exposure

Author:Paul Oakenfold

“Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.”

Lasts Left Effects Standing Department Borrowing Treasury Borrowers

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.”

Writing Lasts Song Performances

Author:Will Oldham

“I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.”

Thinking Jobs Lasts Next Actors

Author:Josh Peck

“Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive.Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for.Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?”

Giving Trying Looks Said Stills Soul Lasts Faces Hurt Alive Sacrifice Give Me Tongue Innocence Shirts Sat Necks Worthwhile Last Time Demonstration Exaggerated Making Sacrifices

Author:Kiersten White

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.”

Feelings Lasts Fall Profound Falling In Love Timber

Author:Patty Loveless

“I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.”

Lasts Night Streets Lovers Mets Glad Last Night Old Love Misinterpretation

Author:Paul Simon

“'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.”

Art Philosophy Lasts Study Raised Buddhist Martial Arts

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.”

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"”

Men Hands Able Lasts Spiritual Black Freedom White Catholic Ancient Jew Thank God Almighty White Man Protestants Holding Hands Gentiles

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.”

Wells May Stills Today Lasts Choices Peace Community Chance Mankind Chaos Violent Annihilation Coexistence Last Chance

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!”

Knows Firsts Lasts Views Position Consequence Logic Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Logical Sole Ontology

Author:Georg Cantor

“Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God.”

Firsts God Lasts Remember Jesus Kingdoms Kingdom Of God

Author:Rajneesh

Lasts Quotes

Related topics

Lasts Quotes