Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it’s the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there’s not a tragic ending. – Daniel Espinosa
Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory. – Ehud Olmert
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God’s ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction. – Christopher Love
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending. – Neil Simon
I’ve never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats. – Danny Boyle
We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967. – Mahmoud Abbas
For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I’ve often entertained the idea of ending my days there. – Elaine Stritch
When something’s ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you’re out on the other side, it’s like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through. – Norah Jones
If you just do a Google search and type in ‘smoking’ or ‘lung cancer’, you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die. – Matthew Gray Gubler
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. – Mary Catherine Bateson
I’m very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, ‘That’s the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.’ – Nathan Fielder
It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. – Max Frisch
When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending. – Jeanne Moreau
The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader’s life at the hands of a gunman or sadist. – Jeff Greenfield
I want an ending that’s satisfying. I’m more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don’t like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough. – Jeffrey Eugenides
The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: ‘That was a lousy movie!’ – Larry Cohen
Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support. – Laura Wasser
The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under… and there’s no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody. – Kevin Spacey
It’s interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although ‘The Giver’ does have an ambiguous ending. I’ve heard about that from readers over the years. – Lois Lowry
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. – Kate Millett
I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won’t do something I want them to in the story. – Julie Kagawa
Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it. – Kate Hudson
Endings are really hard to do, and it’s hard to do an ending where it’s sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible. – Jennifer Hale
If you’re fighting with your boyfriend, you can go to the movies and cry it out and leave happy because the ending of the film is happy. – Lindsay Lohan
I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren’t many things that I feel I have left undone. – Lois Lowry
As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that’s radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I’m still just playing a good bit. – Jonathan Hickman
