The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
George Burns
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
Federico Fellini
Spent an hour in the beginning of the evening at Major Gardiner's, where it was thought that the design of Christianity was not to make men good riddle-solvers, or good mystery-mongers, but good men, good magistrates, and good subjects, good husbands and good wives, good parents and good children, good masters and good servants. The following questions may be answered some time or other, namely, — Where do we find a precept in the Gospel requiring Ecclesiastical Synods? Convocations? Councils? Decrees? Creeds? Confessions? Oaths? Subscriptions? and whole cart-loads of other trumpery that we find religion incumbered with in these days?
John Adams
All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
James Clavell
Yesirree, life sure is good.
Yesirree, nothing could possibly go wrong with everything being so good.
But of course, in books, good is boring.
Good is a snoozer.
Good makes people close the covers and never reopen them.
But you know—you'd think that just once when life finally started going my way, that cosmic writer out there would allow me and all of my co-characters to simply enjoy things for just a little while. I mean, what kind of a prick would end a book just when everything's going so well?Douglas Coupland
It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning...
Randall Jarrell
Burns, George
Burns, Robert
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