Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.
Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before.
I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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.
In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.
Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.
There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end.
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.
We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the 'or' is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.
Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.
A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
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.
Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.
I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.
