Endings Quotes

323 quotes by 242 authors

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. — Glen Duncan
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows. — Marvin Hamlisch
FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as… — Zachary Knighton
FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I… — Zachary Knighton
If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no… — Frederick Lenz
A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending. — Chita Rivera
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. — Gautama Buddha
I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters.… — Angelina Jolie
Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while… — Vince Gilligan
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. — John Galsworthy
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common -… — Baltasar Gracian
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. — Lev Grossman
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings… — Lev Grossman
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. — Stephen King
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. — Caroline Knapp
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of… — Jon Landau
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. — George R. R. Martin
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but… — Michael Morpurgo
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings.… — Joyce Carol Oates
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue. — Lauren Oliver

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