Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets. – Henry Kissinger
It’s really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it’s six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it’s 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that’s 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I’ve done three hours worth of work. – Howie Mandel
I’m glad people think that I can do well. I always say I would rather that be the scenario than on the other end of it saying, ‘We thought she’d be real crappy.’ I’ll take the side that I’m on. I’ll take that people think that I’m going to do well; they have faith in me and believe in me, and that makes me feel stronger. – Holly Holm
Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat. – George C. Williams
The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I’ve been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister. – Helen Clark
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. – Graham Greene
As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you’re acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out. – Helena Bonham Carter
China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters. – Gary Cohn
The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end! – Geraldine McCaughrean
Making a film – particularly what I think is a good film – is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it. – Haskell Wexler
The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again. – Hansie Cronje
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism – which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people – is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. – Harold Bloom
I’m nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I’m on the wrong end of a short sale. – Gary McCord
The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It’s just the end of an illusion. – Henry Spencer
In the end, that’s what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He’s running as the non-Barack Obama. – Howie Carr
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together. – Helen Fisher
I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options. – Glenn Hoddle
I revise a lot while I’m drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I’ve changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I’ve been through the beginning lots of times. – Holly Black
At the end of the day, it just means ‘curvy.’ That’s why I think the word ‘plus-size’ in the industry is very different from people’s mind view of what ‘plus-size’ really should mean. – Hayley Hasselhoff
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. – Henry Mayhew
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We’re preparing for the worst, but we’re hoping for the best. And I’ve told people the end is in sight. – Gray Davis
It used to be that you would go in to see a CEO, and you would ask them, ‘Is your company for sale?’ and if they said ‘No, we have no interest in selling,’ that was sort of the end of the conversation. – Henry Kravis