There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (…)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective...

A movie like ‘The Last House On The Left’ would be very hard to do in Europe.

I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by...

With AC/DC, we’ve always started with rock, and we’ve just kept it going. The critic’s view is always , ‘They just made an album and it’s the same as the last one.’ I’ll have fifteen...

I always have a moment when I know I’m designing the last costume that gets made for a movie, and it’s always been floating up there, but it’s kind of the last one. That’s always...

There’s a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There’ll be a click to tell you it’s done.””Sounds easy enough.””Yes it does,” said Sanguine....

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.

and the boy’s eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.

The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.

Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.

In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: ‘We’ve had enough,’ ‘Our country is drifting,’ ‘We’ve lost our way.’

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can’t be told that I’m wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn’t to do with receiving criticism and responding...

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like...

I guess I’m the last of the Cockneys.

I want the last cheque I write to bounce.

For the last five years I’ve been in the production business.

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor...

When we’re ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.

People always think I’m Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

We’ve grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are...

I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the ’50s and ’60s, they had the theater, and television was...

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I’d do it in the last three days.

We have peace with Israel. We’re actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, ‘Why are we having this relationship when it’s not benefiting anybody?’ Obviously, my...

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they...

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because...

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their...

Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

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.

It’s totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone...

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

I don’t know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or...

I don’t tell many people my last name.

I can’t tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can’t maintain that same work level in 2001, so I’ve got to quit something.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

I saw many people who begun their marathon races lately, but they eventually came up as top winners. I believe that your “lateness” does not account for your “lastness”. It’s not too late for you...

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to...