You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void. – Stacie Orrico
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. – Virginia Woolf
At the end of the day, there’s not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn’t be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress. – Steve Womack
I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it’s like the world is coming to an end! – Vanessa Hudgens
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl. – Stewart Udall
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight. – Umberto Guidoni
We shot ‘Skateland’ in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana – and we shot ‘Battle: Los Angeles’ at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport. – Taylor Handley
You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there’s a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you’re lucky. Time goes by fast, and you’ve got to be busy all the time. – Seth
My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship. – Sugata Mitra
Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They’re all the same when they end up on the plate. – Tristram Stuart
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. – Stanislav Grof
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through. – Sara Zarr
I played a lot of acetates at the end of my vinyl period – I used to make tracks and get them pressed in four or five days – but the quality was always so bad and they would skip all the time. The vinyl days for me are over. I still buy vinyl, but only albums, and just to play. For DJing, vinyl is a nightmare. – Tiesto
I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it. – Steve Prefontaine
If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we’re likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don’t do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be. – Sheena Iyengar
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. – Soren Kierkegaard
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians. – Traian Basescu
The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. – Thomas Guthrie
I like the spreads – designing them is a welcome challenge – but for a dyed-in-the-wool page-a-day journeyman like me, it can be tough to leave a drawing unfinished at the end of the workday. – Stuart Immonen
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. – Susan Cain
I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy. – Sara Bareilles
I’ll go do films for three or four months and then I can’t wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know? – Tobey Maguire