#last

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from. ↗

— Tacitus

#even #fame #last #learned #love

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#challenge #doctor #get #heard #i

But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#been #closer #dealing #ever #last

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#characters #check #down #draft #drafts

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. ↗

— David McCullough

#always #begin #beginning #comes #hard

I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years. ↗

— Callum McDougall

#certainly #changed #chosen #everyone #expects

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.' ↗

— Bryan Volpenhein

#being #cooking #crappy #each #feel

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#appeared #back #darkness #fifteen #froth

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. ↗

— Herman Melville

#grapple #hate #heart #hell #i

I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons. ↗

— Nia Long

#away #because #believe #buttons #did