Quotes About Culmination

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

A good death does honor to a whole life.

Obviously, it was not a good result

Whatever motivated him, Lopsang's decision to tow a client didn't seem like a particularly serious mistake at the time. But it would end up being one of many little things—a slow accrual, compounding steadily and imperceptibly toward critical mass.

I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I played in the Super Bowl in my first year, and the last game I ever played in was the Super Bowl. There's something to be said for going out on a high note.

You did what you had to do. It was coming on for a long time.

But that closing night at Carnegie was without a hint of decline.

That may be why, ultimately, I was fired.

The ending is always a surprise.

Wisdom begins at the end.

something—to make something right and final—is to kill it.

I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.

Michael didn't know how or when it ended.

The board is clearing. The old game is almost played, and the pieces broken.

When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour." He paused. "It's Zero Hour now.

I believe in picking a strong ending.

If I ever leave, it'll be after winning a championship. You need to go out on a high so that people remember you for the right reasons.

The moment is supreme.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

Everything must come to an end, you know!

It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.