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I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.


Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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KELLY JONES Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the tas...
EDITH WHARTON In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON the nurse smiled and patted my arm. “Don’t give up yet. Sometimes when we think God has written ...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN LOVE is only-(L)ive (O)ut positi(VE) or (L)ots (O)f +VE
ANUJ SOMANY Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
NAMIE AMURO In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
ERIC S. RAYMOND Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I want to give a name to my would-be killer. What should I call him? Something that will ease his pr...
JACOB WREN In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
MARILYN MANSON In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness
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ANTONIO GRAMSCI Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ...
MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ...
MARIO PUZO The End is Nigh!" the man shouted.
"Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked.
T...
JANA OLIVER It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
RICHARD KADREY Essendo alla ricerca di un futuro per me stessa, mi piace sapere le possibilità degli altri.
KATHRYN STOCKETT Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO To have a philosophical view on what time is, we would have to go outside the box and look at the bi...
GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON It's not the end of the world to lose.
ANDY MURRAY At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
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CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
BARRY GIBB In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
JOHN C. MAXWELL It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurio...
REUVEN RIVLIN In the end, rational policy is always good.
PAUL KEATING My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat...
BELA KAROLYI In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.
ERIC BRAEDEN I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry s...
PALOMA PICASSO She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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SUZANNE COLLINS I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
MARTY RUBIN Don’t put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.
EMMA CHASE The end of this world looks closer
in eyes of them who want to repent.
TOBA BETA It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.
LEONARD COHEN The machines do not solve problems with greater insight than men do, only faster. Only faster!
ISAAC ASIMOV She sat watching the street and its businesses melt away in the thick tides of mist, partially re-fo...
DEAN KOONTZ Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally ...
PAUL BOWLES Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!
HERGé In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought...
OSCAR WILDE I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone ...
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.
JENNIFER HARRISON Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
KACEY MUSGRAVES In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.
GEORGE STRAIT In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
DANIEL BARENBOIM When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedent...
CAROLINE GEORGE Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a t...
ANNE RICE At the end of the day, it's all about money.
GARRY KASPAROV I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ But it’s almost wonderful when it’s fine and still almost bearable when it isn't.
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THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
HEINRICH HEINE In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
ABBEY LEE KERSHAW But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
LEO ORNSTEIN In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.
LINDA FIORENTINO Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
ELLEN GLASGOW In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
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JOSEPH FARRELL If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his gove...
JOSEPH STALIN He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard....
JOSEPH JOUBERT He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Myth is what we call other people's religion.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how relia...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We live as we dream--alone....
JOSEPH CONRAD There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is n...
JOSEPH PULITZER Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...
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