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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

End Quotes

As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.

– Henry Rollins

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.

– Heinrich Heine

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

– Hillary Clinton

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

– Hannah Arendt

I don’t colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.

– Gemma Jones

If you make a mistake, your opponent can punish, and you end up losing the game.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

When you’re eating salad and quinoa while training, all you want is a burger. In the cycling season, when I’m doing 30-odd hours of exercise a week, I’m dreaming of burgers and curries that I’ll have at the end of the season.

– Geraint Thomas

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

– Harold Bloom

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

– George Phillips Bond

The little song and dance number at the end – that’s me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I’ve never sung before and I’ve certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody’s asked me to try it again since.

– Hugh Dancy

I have no plans to retire. It’s the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

– Hugh Hefner

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don’t end up like this man.

– Henry Rollins

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

– Howard Staunton

It’s always a pity to lose or draw at the end of the game; it’s always painful.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

If it’s bathos you want – and I suspect we are all bathos junkies in the end – nothing gives it to you quite like watching sport. Unless it’s playing sport.

– Howard Jacobson

At the end of ’69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

– George Duke

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

– Ian K. Smith

Towards four o’clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.

– Henry Villard

It’s one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

– Henry Kravis

If I had any advice to give people, it would be to relax; never treat an audition like an emergency. There will be plenty more in your career. If you think you messed up, you probably didn’t. And if you did mess up, it’s not the end of the world.

– Gregg Sulkin

With eye upraised his master’s looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man’s guardian, and the poor man’s friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

– George Crabbe

I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.

– Henry Rollins

It’s not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.

– Gerry Beckley

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

– H. P. Lovecraft

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I’ve dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

– Hugh Hefner

Although I did end up trying out several different fields before committing to acting, I knew in the deepest part of heart that I wanted to be an actress.

– Gina Holden

In anticipation of a meal – supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best table in the perfect restaurant – we might indeed postpone sadness. And maybe even halfway through, we will remain in tolerably high spirits, with dessert still to come. But as we near the end of eating, we begin to feel anticipatory twinges of anticlimax.

– Howard Jacobson

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

– Hillary Clinton

I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I’m doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I’m talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you’re so used to speaking that way.

– Henry Cavill

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn’t as if I’m only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don’t pull my punches.

– Helen Suzman

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