Bookends Quotes

• Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.

  Liane Holliday Willey

  Support, Stuff, Middle

  Liane Holliday Willey (2014). “Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Expanded Edition”, p.96, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

  John C. Maxwell

  Discipline, Decision, Finishing

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• Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over

  Joyce Meyer

  Fall, Self, Fruits Of The Spirit

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• It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

  Tim Minchin

  Alcohol, Balance, Fine

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• Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

  Will Smith

  Meaningful, Years, Two

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• I try my jokes onstage. The only way to really find out if something is going to work is to try it on stage, and I try to be careful and bookend something new with a strong bit before and a strong bit afterwards. But it's fun to run on virgin snow. I like that feeling onstage of creating new footprints and not knowing what's going to happen.

  Brian Regan

  Running, Strong, Fun

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• I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Beautiful, Shoes, Use

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• You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

  Stephen King

  Reflection, Breakfast, Hunger

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• Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

  Eudora Welty

  Women, Home, Ironing Board

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

  John Travolta

  Night, Thinking, Careers

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• I'll start with the Beatles, and I'll bookend it with Soundgarden.

  Taylor Momsen

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• Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

  David Henry Hwang

  Children, Memories, Grandmother

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