Quotes on Ends

We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.

It's like you run into this dark tunnel, trusting that somewhere there's another end to it where you're going to come out. And there's a point in the middle where it's just dark. There's no light from where you came in and there's no light at the other end; all you can do is keep running. And then you start to see a little light, and a little more light, and then, bam! You're out in the sun.

If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists

I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?

I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America