Finish Quotes

#1. This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.

Jazz Feylynn

#2. Finish every day and be done with it..

John C. Maxwell

#3. I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

Christina Aguilera

#4. How can you be so nice to me and how can you forgive me when I've been such a jerk?"
Maddy appears to think for a moment. "When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don't keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.

Stephen Reid Andrews

#5. Go Fast! Go Hard! Finish! And Win the Day!

Eric Thomas

#6. The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

Nancy Kress

#7. Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

Tommy Lasorda

#8. There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And that's when I get to page 100. I have to see it out.

Joanna Scott

#9. The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

Lance Armstrong

#10. I trailed off and he didn't push me to finish. I was finding that I liked that.

Sarah Dessen

#11. The Best and Right thing to do in Life, is Give a Person a Chance to finish what they started.

Joan Ambu

#12. I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.

Robert Barry

#13. Don't let anyone set restrictions on your life ... You chart the course of your own future, not anyone else. Don't let people have such a power over you. Because if you're always racing against their standards, then what's the point of reaching a useless finish line?

Kale Lawrence

#14. One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it's friends who esteem marriage that will do this; not people who belittle it or question the value of it.

Ashleigh Slater

#15. I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish.

Sophie Jordan

#16. I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Neil Gaiman

#17. No-not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That's usually my only goal-to make it good enough to hopefully put out there. I just tried to finish what I started, as far as my ideas for the record. Hopefully I was able to do it.

David Eugene Edwards

#18. I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

Asafa Powell

#19. I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.

Philip Schultz

#20. If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

Brian Tracy

#21. I didn't finish high school, but I went to a special school for producers and musicians, a three year course for engineering, producing and learning all the tricks. So now I have my producing degree and certification.

Martin Garrix

#22. America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.

Colin Powell

#23. The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.

Nancy Etchemendy

#24. The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

Stirling Moss

#25. I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win."

Robert Cheeke

#26. Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

Francois Fenelon

#27. Nice people sometimes finish last but they are always the winners who take it all in the end.

Abigail George

#28. When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.'

Orison Swett Marden

#29. There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those assholes get involved.

Trent Reznor

#30. Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon

#31. Max flashed me a flirtatious smile. "Why don't you come and join us, me and you could -"
"Don't even finish that sentence, Slap-head."
"Hey, I told you, call me Max."
"While you're being a wanker, you're Slap-head.

Suzanne Wrightt

#32. Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

Michael Phelps

#33. I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

Meg Tilly

#34. Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#35. You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.

Jim Sturgess

#36. You ever heard the phrase 'nice guys finish last'? It's true. Been true my whole life. So, maybe it'd be nice for me for a change, if someone thought I was worth fightin' for.

Lorelei James

#37. It was important to my father that I go to Hebrew school three days a week for two or three hours each time. To me, it felt endless. Think about it from a kid's perspective: I would finish my normal school day, then get on a bus and go to another school. That was tough to take.

Steve Sheinkin

#38. I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

Kathryn Harrison

#39. It's great! I used it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) to restore the finish of my 370/12/RM and I love the way it turned out!..

Roger McGuinn

#40. It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

Ted Allen

#41. You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.

Mike D'Antoni

#42. Well, I live a double life. Tonight, I'll escort you to dinner. Then I have to rush home and finish my calculus homework.'
'You're not joking, are you?'
'I never joke about calculus homework.

Rick Riordan

#43. Yeah, I'm just here for - I stop for a second, because I'm not sure how to finish the line out loud. To see if I can ever be happy, or even remotely human, again. Would you happen to have the magic cure?

Daisy Whitney

#44. Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Pat Summitt

#45. I told you what I wanted from you. If you're refusing, fine. I'll pull out and finish on my own. But you'll be wearing cum on your dress for the rest of the day. Either way those men are going to know you were in here being the dirty little slut that you are. Your choice. Do you understand?

Laurelin Paige

#46. We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

John Noble

#47. How about I call you when I finish this?"
"But you don't even have my phone number," he said.
"I strongly suspect you write it in the book.

John Green

#48. I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.

Christopher Moore

#49. As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

Joss Whedon

#50. Then my outrage wandered away: never do junk if you need to finish thoughts, sentences, or simple tasks.

Lynn Crosbie

#51. It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.

Katharine Hepburn

#52. Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

Siri Hustvedt

#53. These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Derek Jarman

#54. I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

Olivia Culpo

#55. You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.

Anne Enright

#56. We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.

Joe Biden

#57. You should start your life with the illusion that you are completely in control of what you do. You should finish life with the recognition that, all in all, you got better than you deserved.

David Brooks

#58. Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!

Darren Clarke

#59. Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd.

Deyth Banger

#60. I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.

Jeanette Winterson

#61. You've got to learn a pace that's fast enough to win, but slow enough to finish.

Rick Mears

#62. Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

Alice Hoffman

#63. Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

Robert Kiyosaki

#64. Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

Loretta Lynn

#65. I've been getting my makeup done professionally since I was 12, I've never found a brand that could create that glowing look and flawless finish we all want from beauty products with ingredients that were effective and safe. So I had to create it.

Jessica Alba

#66. I want people on the front line to be proud of what they're doing and give themselves permission to finish things in ways that they can be proud of.

Satya Nadella

#67. Like Gert is here, but . . . She couldn't find the words to finish.

Carolyn Brown

#68. Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Steve Erickson

#69. What do you need, babe?" "You." "Okay. I can sit with you while you finish your shower." I shut the lid on the toilet. "No. I need you in here with me - in the shower.

Georgia Cates

#70. Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Dario Argento

#71. The race for excellence has no finish line.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#72. Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.

Mark McKinnon

#73. and washing it off in the sink. "Finish up your lunch." "We're starting now?" "Good a

Ann Patchett

#74. Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

Tom Stoppard

#75. When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.

Cung Le

#76. You better be ready to finish what you started.

Christina Lauren

#77. The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

Ferdinand Porsche

#78. I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in its entirety within 6 minutes.

Gregor Collins

#79. If marathoners finish they win.

George A. Sheehan

#80. Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.

Val Kilmer

#81. Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.

Tim Duncan

#82. Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.

Daniel Silva

#83. Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway,

Steve Merrick

#84. You may have gotten off to a rough start in life. You may have had more than your share of unfair things happen, but it's not how you start that counts. It's how you finish." ****

Don Pasco

#85. Pikachu: Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Ash: Pikatchu! You don't have to say that! Locate a bush fast!! (Pikachu looks at a nearby bush) Pikachu: Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiika!! Ash: Don't worry, I will not peek! Hurry up and finish!

Jenson Publishing

#86. Together, we're going to finish the job we started.

Barack Obama

#87. Grown-ups shouldn't finish books they're not enjoying. When you're no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don't have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don't have to finish books you don't like.

John Irving

#88. Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish.

Donalyn Miller

#89. Those who endure the hardest preparation are called on to finish the greatest tasks. I don't know what you've been called to, but rest assure, you won't have to go through it alone.

D.L. Fowler

#90. My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

Amy Tan

#91. I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why kid yourself?

I.M. Pei

#92. I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.

Padmasree Warrior

#93. I love music.. everything from R&B to Rap to Modern Country.. I still haven't figured out my own personal vibe.. it was sort of Nora Jones then sort of electronic.. then country.. it is very hard to make it in the music industry so we shall see if I ever find the time to finish it!

Amy Weber

#94. Stand up and finish what you started

Bob Harper

#95. I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.

Marchette Chute

#96. I'm going to finish off the last of Three's Company tonight. Frankly, I like Mr. Furley more than the Ropers.

Andy Weir

#97. Exactly. It all just seems so arbitrary and political and" - come on, Blake, finish strong, puritanical, pathological, perforated, Panamanian - "weird.

Veronica Rossi

#98. First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

Octavia E. Butler

#99. Slip away and come watch the sunset." -Marcus
'There are more calls to finish.' -Shari
"Those will wait. The sunset won't" -Marcus

Dee Henderson

#100. At the end of the race nobody really cares about how you started, so stay laser focused and finish strong. Get ready to proclaim "I did it!

Farshad Asl