End Quotes

I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.

~ Roger Craig Smith

At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

~ Guy Berryman

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

~ R. Lee Ermey

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

~ Peter Jurasik

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.

~ Linda Fiorentino

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

~ David Niven

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

~ Aristotle

I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

~ Hugh Hefner

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That's how you end up checking email all day Saturday.

~ Timothy Ferriss

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

~ Harlan Coben

Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the hard work.

~ Ashton Eaton

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

~ Bobby Bowden

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

~ Leonard Cohen

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

~ Ron Livingston

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

~ Anderson Cooper

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

~ Bill Murray

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

~ Madonna Ciccone

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

~ Moses Mendelssohn

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

~ Bear Grylls

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

~ Gwen Stefani

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

~ David Cassidy

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

~ Pharrell Williams

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

~ Richard Bach

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

~ Björk

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

~ Mikhail Gorbachev

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

~ Michel De Montaigne

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

~ Stephen Hawking

No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.

~ R. J. Cutler

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

~ Temple Grandin

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

~ Oscar Wilde

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.

~ Doris Lessing

I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

~ Ivar Giaever

The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.

~ Andrea M. Ghez

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

~ Manly Hall

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

~ Andy Rooney

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

~ Sylvester Stallone

I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'

~ Miranda Hart

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

~ Seneca