Last Line Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in,… — Kirk McLean
There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot… — Maxime Weygand
Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so… — Kyra Sedgwick
Massive, massive mentality. The mental strength, you've just got to have that because you get a lot of stick, as a goalkeeper you're the last… — David Seaman
Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby. — Jack Scalia
Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away. — Nancy Pearl
I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I… — Amy Hempel
I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote.… — Amy Hempel
Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be… — Larry David
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined… — Howard Nemerov
I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too… — Howard Nemerov
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the… — Khalil Gibran
There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent… — N.K. Jemisin
Um ,sorry. I cant read the last line." "Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?" "I lived in Kansas..So ..no — Rick Riordan
A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands.… — Rick Yancey
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute,… — Raymond Carver
As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my… — Henry Adams
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a… — John Irving
Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the… — Kahlil Gibran

Who Wrote These Last Line Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 20 Last Line Quotes as follows: