Last Minute Quotes - Page 5

• I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

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• When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Childhood, Presidential

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• The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

  Bill Maher

  Next Week, Defense, Want

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• A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.

  David Sedaris

  Night, College, Drug

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Lonely, Children, Long

  Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.375, Penguin

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• Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was perfect, but this time, Bob, instead of saying “What’s for dinner?” you say, “Wait a minute! Benzene is actually a hydrocarbon!” And say it with a Norwegian accent. Also, we think maybe your character should have no arms.

  Dave Barry

  Character, Thinking, Should Have

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• I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Needs, Lasts, Kind

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• Okay, yeah, he staggered back and fell into the condiments. Big deal. There wasn't any blood. I didn't even get him in the face. He saw my fist coming, and at the last minute he ducked, so instead of punching him in the nose, like I intended, I ended up punching him in the neck. I highly doubt it even left a bruise.

  Meg Cabot

  Blood, Doubt, Bruises

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

  Charles Portis

  Men, Swings, Medicine

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner; the blade; the last-minute reprieve; the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sky, Thank You God, Lasts

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• This dress makes me look fat," I told Jasmine as we stood near the back of the crowd and watched the last minute preperations fall into place. She glanced over at me and my efforts to rearrange the folds of my long, gauzy dress. "Your pregnant," she stated. "Everything's supposed to make you look fat." I Scowled. "I think the correct reponse was 'No it doesn't.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Thinking, Long

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• Another last-minute, good-deed job,” Royce grumbled as he stuffed supplies into his saddlebag. “True,” Hadrian said, slinging his sword belt over his shoulder, “but this is at least a paying job.” “You should have told him the real reason we saved him from Trumbul— because we wouldn’t see the hundred tenents otherwise.” “That was your reason. Besides, how often do we get to do royal contracts? If word gets around, we’ll be able to command top salaries.” “If word gets around, we’ll be hanged.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Jobs, Real, Should Have

  Michael J Sullivan (2011). “Theft Of Swords: The Riyria Revelations”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Why don’t I know You?” “Does anyone ever really know someone else?” “You think your cute,” she told him. “You think your gorgeous. But I’m the one guy here who knows better.” “So I’m not gorgeous?” Macey challenged. “Of course you are,” He started away, turned back at the last minute. “But I’m the guy who figured out that’s not all you are." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Cute, Thinking, Guy

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• Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

  Roger Bannister

  Leadership, Sports, Running

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• I had hoped I would have some definitive news to give you by now, but I've heard (unofficially) that they need/will take another 2 week extension to make their decision. I've also heard that the police are flooding the Gov's office with last minute calls/letters requesting that I be denied.

  Sundiata Acoli

  Giving, Office, Decision

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• I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.

  Brad Paisley

  Lasts, Christmas Eve, Shame

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• I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Opportunity

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• One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn't go up!

  Andrea Phillips

  Halloween, Numbers, Laughing

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• When we won the league at Tottenham, they came back 2-2 in the last-minute of the game, and they're celebrating - because they're happy to draw against us, obviously. And I remember saying to Mauricio Tarricco, do you realise we only need a point to be Champions? And they all [were really shocked]. So I said 'Yes. Now we're going to celebrate on your pitch. Bye bye!'

  Thierry Henry

  Games, Bye, League

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• Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

  Tom Daschle

  Exercise, President, United States

  "Bush's NSA Hubris" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. January 20, 2006.

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• At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mustache, Risk, Stripes

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