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"There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow."

Karen Black, American Actress

"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

"Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other."

Jack Paar, American Entertainer

End, Painting, Right, Washington

"It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying."

Ben Folds, American Musician

End, Numbers, Pressure

"A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Ronald Knox, English Theologian

End, Responsibility, Sense

"At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there."

Donald Pleasence, English Actor

End, First, Lying

"About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it."

Dweezil Zappa, American Musician

End, Manufacturing, Now, Right

"Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end."

Keren Ann, Israeli Musician

"At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'"

Dwight Yoakam, American Musician

End, Film, Living, May

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

Orson Welles, American Actor

End, Ending, Want

"I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

"Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong."

Jason Bateman, American Actor

End, Pretty, Will

"We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show."

Dick Van Dyke, American Actor

"Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989."

Warren Cuccurullo, American Musician

End, Songs, Writing

"Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up."

George Clooney, American Actor

End, Name, Wonder, Words

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."

Charles M. Schulz, American Cartoonist

End, Today, Tomorrow, World

"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."

Marcel Pagnol, French Dramatist

"I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig."

Tia Carrere, American Actress

"I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband."

Kim Wilde, English Musician

"You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have."

John McLaughlin, English Musician

"I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal."

Holly Hunter, American Actress

"The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking."

Charlton Heston, American Actor

End, Film, Sound

"There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle."

Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian Musician

"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

End, Revolution

"As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities."

Gary Bauer, American Public Servant

End, President, Will

"Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out."

Geoffrey Fisher, British Clergyman

"Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying."

Robert Smith, English Musician

End, Eyes, Faces, Open

"Everything has an end."

Nicholas Lea, Canadian Actor

"There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over."

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Indian Entertainer

End, Light, Will

"When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it."

Adam Jones, American Musician

End, Ending, Songs

"In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get."

Gayle Gardner, American Sportscaster

"A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage."

Cass Canfield, American Publisher

"But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling."

Olivia Wilde, American Actress

End, Feeling, Journey

"Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision."

James Thurber, American Comedian

End, Flying, Man, Will

"You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."

Billie Holiday, American Musician

"In the end, everything is a gag."

Charlie Chaplin, English Actor

"Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other."

Paul McCartney, English Musician

"Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president."

Stephen Dorff, American Actor

End, President, Pretty, World

"I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me."

Whoopi Goldberg, American Actress

"Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end."

Charlton Heston, American Actor

End, Events, Example, Shakespeare

"I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him."

John Thaw, British Actor

"He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it."

Shane West, American Actor

End, Film, Pretty, Voice

"I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood."

Tom Berenger, American Actor

End, Hollywood, Old, School

"I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world."

Jay London, American Comedian

End, World, Worry

"Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do."

Ayub Khan, Pakistani Field Marshal

End, Ending, Interest, Tests, Want

"I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end."

Paula Jones, American Celebrity

"Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face."

Lauren Hutton, American Model

"One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived."

Paul Bourget, French Novelist

"There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!"

Mariah Carey, American Musician

"When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair."

Sylvester Stallone, American Actor

End, School, Teachers

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