The last thing people want is a surprise, these days.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or…

— Mark Ronson

During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though…

— Wendell Berry

There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

— Buck Martinez

This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the…

— Jean Liedloff

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started…

— Maria Bello

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a…

— Edith Head

We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September…

— George W. Bush

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

— Jules Renard

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live…

— Simen Agdestein

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

— Oliver Goldsmith

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a…

— Wendell Berry

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

— Joseph Campbell

wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no…

— Lucille Clifton