When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn’t begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we’re changed by that relationship, inevitably. It changes the way we live, changes our patterns, changes our social organization.
Whenever a woman wields a gun in a film, it ends up looking like they’re trying to be sexy rather than they actually know what they’re doing.
To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.
Every great summer party starts with a list. Throwing something together chaotically ends up being more work than taking 15 minutes to make a plan first.
In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.
Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they’re under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.
We have to find a way to let everyone know when they’re watching that we hear them, that we’re asking their questions on all ends of the spectrum.
I don’t even think of it as a strategy. It’s me in my element; it’s my forte. Me being with all the mandem on the ends, spitting to an old school grime riddim, is me in my element; that’s when I feel I’m at my best.
Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who’s always inactive on Sundays… I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.
This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like ‘Les Miserables.’ The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout.
I’ve barfed in movies before. It seems like it always ends up being Campbell’s soup mixed with something else.
Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn’t work with the overall narrative drive of the story.
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
I had held titles in all the major U.K. organisations, but we were struggling to make ends meet. There were times you don’t have a fight lined up, and the bills are stacking up.
For me, each day begins and ends with wanting to learn a little more about the secrets of spider silk.
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
I’m not technically adept at music, but I’d love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.
I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.
There are a whole lot of little tales told in ‘Presumed Innocent,’ whether it’s about the Hobberly kid, who was an important witness who ends up assassinated, or an accountant named Marcy Lupino, who meets a horrible fate in a state penitentiary. There’s less of that in ‘Innocent,’ and deliberately so.
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations… but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
You do a film and you know where you’re going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.
A lot of my friends, we all grew up sort of not very wealthy. And in England, whatever ends up being a negative, that’s a positive.
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
True creativity often starts where language ends.
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship – and not as ends in themselves.
My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.
I used to think there was something cheap in trying to make beautiful sentences. Now I think language has its own ways and ends, and it does one’s thinking good to try to serve them. Beauty isn’t truth. But a certain kind of clear beauty will help in the pursuit of truth.
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren’t enough hours in the day for all this business.
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
If the novelist isn’t surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn’t written anything worth remembering.
By what criterion… can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, – how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all they have to say. If the event has a future, this can only lie in the memories of those who were present and who retained a trace in their hearts.
It’s funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
A good thing never ends.
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
Because I’m a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.
The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.
The party on Wall Street never ends – while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.
Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism.
I don’t know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.
Global companies can raise capital much easier than local Indian companies can because they have access to many more markets than we do, and this ends up distorting competition.
At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.
Launching a kid into college is about more than having the money to pay for it. Parents invest so much of their time and identities in the process that it can feel like a part time job. For many parents, the college your child ends up attending becomes a parenting grade.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there’s funny stuff in it but I’ve lost the emotional connection to the characters because it’s just so bananas.
