Last Minute Quotes - Page 2

• I would spend absolutely every last minute with my kids, telling them how much I love them and how much I would do for them.

  Kevin Hart

  Kids, Lasts, Minutes

  "A Heart to Heart with Kevin Hart". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it.

  Josephine Tey

  Heart, Games, Rivers

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

  Farley Mowat

  Errors, Important, Lasts

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• I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

  Nina Arianda

  Singing, Opera, Singers

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• The more you remember, the more you are able to experience, the more you know, so to speak. And the more you know, the more you remember. It is a circle... But remember, none of it has been exactly a drudge. I mean, you've loved all of it! Every last minute! Oh, it's delicious, this thing called life! It's a scrumptious experience, no?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Mean

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

  Jon Anderson

  Christmas, Perfectly Good, Shopping

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• The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Information, Lasts, Minutes

  "AFTER THE WAR; Hussein's Perennial Optimist Reappears". New York Times, July 12, 2003.

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• Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

  Russel Honore

  Country, Waiting, Political

  "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.

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• I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite secure enough to allow it to be spontaneous. So the more prepared I am, the more I'm able to kind of let it go . . .

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Let It Go, Lines, Able

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• Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

  Michael Strahan

  Games, Play, Lasts

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• [About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

  Hannah Arendt

  Taught Us, Long, Evil

  Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil ch. 15 (1963)

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• Arnold said this is a last minute attack by Democrats. How did Arnold know to grope only Democrats?

  Jay Leno

  Lasts, Minutes, Said

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• We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute.

  Romario

  Lasts, Minutes

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• One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."

  Scott Raab

  Smart, Cocky, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Humorous, Eye, Balls

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• Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

  Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

  Looks, Lasts, Dictator

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• The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

  Carl Sagan

  June, July, August

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.

  Martha Raddatz

  Car, Lasts, Interviews

  "Women Reporters Face Added Risks In Conflict Zones". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 22, 2011.

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• The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat.

  Paul Ince

  Sweat, Waiting, Lasts

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• The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

  Robert Capa

  Horse, War, Hands

  Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.161, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If you cannot come to the party, do not cancel at the last minute or give a message to a child to inform the host. And don't bother explaining why you can't attend because anything after 'because' is bullshit.

  Amy Sedaris

  Children, Party, Bullshit

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• A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

  Pam Brown

  Hope, Cat, Knees

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• It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze on the last minute they measured.

  Rachel Vincent

  Running, Hands, Batteries

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “My Soul to Save”, p.104, Harlequin

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• It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.

  Clive Barker

  Together, Lasts, Minutes

  "The Damnation Game". Book by Clive Barker, 1985.

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• Congratulations to Saddam Hussein on being elected to another seven-year term. It was very close. He received 99 percent of the vote, and one percent of the vote went for last-minute candidate Frank Lautenberg.

  David Letterman

  Congratulations, Years, Hussein

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