Last Time Quotes - Page 25

• The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

  Christopher Cross

  Song, Bars, Lines

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• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  Aaron Carter

  Running, Hands, Lessons

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• But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Lying, Lasts, Film

  "Paul Thomas Anderson strikes cinematic oil". www.today.com. January 3, 2008.

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• When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what should be the real liberal agenda: looking at an issue not with orthodoxy, but with open eyes.

  Owen Gleiberman

  Real, Eye, Thinking

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• When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

  Jerry Spinelli

  School, Tests, Lasts

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• No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

  Connie Willis

  Lasts, Problem, Said

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.18, Bantam

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• Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

  James Patterson

  Lasts, Lists, Kind

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• The memories of the day played in his mind, but this time, his thoughts were of his daughter and the way she'd clung to Katie, her little face buried in Katie's neck. The last time he'd seen that, he reflected, was when Carly had been alive.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Daughter, Memories, Mind

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• I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to fade. If I had, I would have stared at my reflection, memorizing it. It was the last time I would look into a real mirror for more than a decade.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Real, Reflection, Doors

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• The last time someone dried my hair for me was in sixth grade, when i broke my arm." "How did you break it?" "I fell out of a tree." "You fell out of a tree?" "I think there was a boy and a dare involved." "Ah.

  Tammara Webber

  Boys, Thinking, Hair

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• September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Children, Feelings, Lasts

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.500, Macmillan

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• Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time

  Lauren Kate

  Nephilim, Lasts, Firsts

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Rapture: Book 4 of the Fallen Series”, p.448, Random House

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• I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you’d be better off somewhere else? If you’d have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe you’d have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, you’re here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! Who knows, maybe I’ll make you fall in love with economics.

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Gratitude, Grateful, Cutting

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• Cammie's going to be mad she missed this," Macey said to fill the silence. "Excuse me?" Hale asked. "Nothing." She shook her head. "I just...I have a friend who really likes air vents. And dumbwaiter shafts. And laundry chutes. Of course, the last time I was in a laundry chute, Cammie and I fell about a dozen stories..." "well, that sounds like fun." "it was either that or get kidnapped by terrorists, so I guess we got of easy.

  Ally Carter

  Fun, Air, Mad

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• Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then they finished, they both lit up a cigarette and this woman stood up and said, Excuse me, I think you'll find this is a non-smoking compartment.

  Victoria Wood

  Funny, Sex, Couple

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• The last time I took drugs, I probably took more than anybody could survive.

  Charlie Sheen

  Winning, Drug, Lasts

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• I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.

  Jeff Gordon

  Past, Years, Long

  "Jeff Gordon to retire as full-time driver after 2015 season", January 22, 2015.

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• In a way, 'On the Road''s greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last time I met any young people who were actually 'on the road' was when I covered Occupy St. Louis. Those few, dirty kids were fighting a battle even they couldn't articulate.

  Tony D'Souza

  Reading, Dirty, Kids

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• Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

  Eric West

  Mom, Phones, Years

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• We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Done, World

  George Bernard Shaw (1987). “Back to Methuselah”, p.443, Penguin UK

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• Those who love God never meet for the last time.

  David Berg

  Lasts, God Love, Heavenly

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• The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

  Ray LaHood

  Lasts, Taxes, Gas

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

  Ray LaHood

  Years, Bills, Lasts

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

  Douglas Adams

  Character, Numbers, Common Sense

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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