#last

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#god #imbecility #institute #last #run

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#advise #any #beginning #consider #draft

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#forward #good #hard #i #i think

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#contract #get #label #last #major

I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#different #find #four #hard #hard work

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy. ↗

— Justin Bieber

#before #building #climbed #could #crazy

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#again #being #border #border security #crying

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die. ↗

— Bono

#baby #blow #day #die #ethiopia

He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#last-words #beauty

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#burden #fitted #great #joys #last