Finals Quotes · Page 16

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

— Cyndi Lauper

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity…

— Ernest Becker

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

— Frank Sinatra

In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The…

— Rob Sheffield

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction.…

— Wallace Stevens

To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies…

— Joan Didion

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

— Rainer Maria Rilke

When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No…

— Suzanne Weyn

I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what-…

— Jason Mraz

We want to be in the Finals and hold that trophy up.

— Jordan Clarkson

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

— Guillermo del Toro

It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future…

— Allyson Felix

Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made…

— Margaret Mead

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

— John Steinbeck

I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm starting to get…

— Pele

I get asked about the best games I've called, and as far as college football goes, the Florida-LSU environment was as good…

— Verne Lundquist

It's true, I do love the semi-epiphany. For example, in "Fall Line," the character's final decision is less epiphany than imbecility. He…

— Alexander Weinstein

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human…

— Richard Dawkins

The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as…

— Jonathan Messinger

Since the NBA purchased the New Orleans Hornets, final responsibility for significant management decisions lies with the Commissioner's Office in consultation with…

— David Stern

For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

— Kurt Goldstein

Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.

— Frederick Lenz

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

— John Cage

[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and…

— Virginia Woolf