If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.
In the end, that's what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He's running as the non-Barack Obama.
Allowing casinos to operate without having races could result in the end of dog racing in Florida as we know it. Right now, greyhound racing is in many cases a money-losing proposition, but the dog tracks are forced to continue it because they have to have races in order to operate the lucrative casinos.
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time, and in the end, the audience is not interested in how you got there but in what you're saying. The more clearly and concisely and artistically you say it, the more effective it is.
In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.
The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.
Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
I've established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it's a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.
After university, I went into film. I started out making tea, managed a brief stint as an assistant director, then found myself writing a screenplay. In the end, I wrote quite a few - but by January 2006, I wanted out.
I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.
Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.
In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.
Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.