"The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive."
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"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."
"People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves."
"Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being."
"Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!"
"My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die."
"Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act."
"The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott."
"Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest"
"Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man."
"I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living."
"Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation"
"To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."
"It is very beautiful over there. (last words)"
"The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out."
"Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best."
"The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place."
"Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express."
"A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation."
"Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months."