Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the ending until I got there.

- Austin Grossman

I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

There's always that relief you feel when you're working on your own series that you can actually make it to your planned ending and that your audience will still be there to support you - and that your publisher will still exist.

- Brian K. Vaughan

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

- Bobby Bowden

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

- Billy Collins

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

- bell hooks

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

- Barack Obama

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

- Barack Obama

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

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

- Arthur Miller

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!

- Amy Pascal

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

- Amaury Nolasco

After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin.

- Arnon Goldfinger

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

- Anne Campbell

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

- Alex Graves

I don't like DVD extras. No. Especially when they do things like put out alternative endings? I find all of that a little bizarre, because there should only be one ending. I don't like to be told, 'Oh, we could have had it this way,' for the director's cut.

- Aidan Gillen

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

- Adam Jones

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.

- Avril Lavigne

We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.

- Aaron Swartz