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End Quotes


"I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that."


"You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present."


"There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle."


"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."


"The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go."


"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."


"The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire."


"Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other."


"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."


"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
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