Lasts Quotes

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Let's make hay while it lasts.