I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I’d been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn’t wait to get out. – Jared Harris
When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you’ve inherited a troubled franchise. – Jeffrey Lurie
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. – Marcus Aurelius
Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn’t get arrested, so I’ll take this. Feast versus famine. – Josh Schwartz
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. – Lafcadio Hearn
At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas. – Julie Bishop
The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren’t expecting it at all. – Jon Crosby
The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo. – John Yoo
A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time. – Jacques Santer
One thing I’ve learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There’s no fait accompli to any of this. – Jeremy Rifkin
In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles. – Kate Adie
The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don’t know if it’s going to last that much longer. – John Oates
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. – Robert Anton Wilson
Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. – Rudolf Arnheim
In some ways, ‘The Little Mermaid’ was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete. – Richard Corliss
Great athletes last because they let the mental do all the work. What we do as hoofers is not so much a physical strain as everybody thinks. It’s more of a mental stretch. – Savion Glover
Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all. – Paul Begala