Quotes About Finishes

#1. Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

Joseph Addison

#2. The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

Paul Brown

#3. If you use a standard called "biological value" to rate protein sources ... soy finishes far below eggs, milk, fish, beef and chicken. The food with the highest biological value ever measured is whey protein ...

Lou Schuler

#4. A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it ...

Nora Ephron

#5. The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

Elizabeth Kostova

#6. There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

Louis Navellier

#7. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.

Peter Brook

#9. I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.

Ruth Rendell

#10. American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

Thomas Friedman

#11. As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to.

Martin Freeman

#12. It does not matter where one starts; it is where one finishes that makes all the difference.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#13. The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

Wang Yangming

#14. It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

Rupert Grint

#15. An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Paul Valery

#16. She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.

Cornell Woolrich

#17. It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.

Jim Courier

#18. What you love too violently finishes by killing you.

Guy De Maupassant

#19. In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.

Jim Rohn

#20. You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

Abe Lemons

#21. God is the beginning and the end, alpha and omega - He finishes before he starts.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Don't worry. We'll farm, soon's he finishes wi' that new-style Scanran fertilizer.

Tamora Pierce

#23. When a man undertakes a job, he has to stick to it till he finishes it. If

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#24. I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, must be the same person when she finishes telling a story as she was at the start. But I want to be transformed by my filmmaking, by the journey I take.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#25. Kiernan leans forward. "I'm guessing that's because you can make it work, Mr. Houdini. Maybe that's how you manage . . ." He pauses when my kick lands on his shin, but finishes the sentence anyway. ". . . some of your more elaborate escapes.

Rysa Walker

#26. An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Tim O'Reilly

#27. Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

Andrew Carnegie

#28. She learns, after she finishes the job, that she programmed very well the specifications as delivered to her, but that they were deficient. If she had only known the purpose of the program, she could have done it right for the purpose, even though the specifications were deficient.

W. Edwards Deming

#29. Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

James Dobson

#30. With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path.

Dale Earnhardt

#31. Purpose is not an add-on, it's not an initiative. It is a culture change and it never finishes

Richard Branson

#32. When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

Johnny Miller

#33. It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you take control of the song. You start writing it, and if you're not careful, it just finishes itself and it might not be what you wanted. It's very strange, it takes over itself. It has its own life.

Kate Bush

#34. Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Mike Jackson

#35. Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.

Kris Rafferty

#36. But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

Glenn Tipton

#37. We look for happiness in every other thing and being around us. We live in an "if and then" model of happiness. If that happens, then I will be happy. This list of "if and then" never finishes, and we continue through our entire life learning how to be unhappy.

Rakesh Sethi

#38. Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#39. engineer finishes

Philip K. Dick

#40. He finishes his beer and rolls the empty bottle across the table. With a sad shake of his head, he gets to his feet, comes over to me and holds out his hands. "Come on," he says. "Grab hold. Come on, Rach, up you

Paula Hawkins

#41. A set is created to make dance the crowd not for listening at home. A electronic set should only be heard in the party and when this party finishes the set shouldn't be heard for nobody, it should only be keeped on the mind of clubbers who were in the event.

Richie Hawtin

#42. When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

Raymond Carver

#43. Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

#44. We teleported," Issie finishes. "Like in Star Trek or Harry Potter, sort of. No! Like in Dr. Who in that episode with the Sontarans and the brilliant human boy, or really any Dr. Who ever if you think of the Tardis! Holy canola! That is just the coolest thing ever! Wowie, wow, wow!

Carrie Jones

#45. Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

Georg Buchner

#46. Do not complain about the length of the road! What will you do when the road finishes? Let it continue!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#47. In race of life, it does not matter who finishes first. What matters most is being able to complete your race.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#48. Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.

Dave Rowntree

#49. As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.

Amy Hempel

#50. It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

Gail Sheehy

#51. In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#52. A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Charles Caleb Colton

#53. Most stories finish at the end.
But not this one.
This one finishes with a whole new beginning.

Emma Chase

#54. A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes.

Semezdin Mehmedinovic

#55. A great book is one, which really don't finish when it finishes.

Aman Jassal

#56. Every single day, another page is added and as one book finishes, another one starts.

Savi Sharma

#57. Joy in the second moment of its arrival is already less keen than in the first, is still fainter in the third, and finishes by coalescing with our normal mental state, just as the circles which the fall of a pebble forms on the surface of water, gradually die away.

Nikolai Gogol

#58. Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

Charles Caleb Colton

#59. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Amy Hempel

#60. She finishes the chorus and shuts her eyes again. Her long legs bounce against the rail of the stool to keep rhythm and I fall victim to her siren's song. She has bewitched me. And I want her. She's the one.

Georgia Cates

#61. Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.

Dana Gioia

#62. I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

Sarah Dessen

#63. Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.

Baron De Montesquieu

#64. The big story is Bruce Jenner. In last week's interview, Jenner said he's a woman who is transitioning his body from male to female, and he's also a conservative Republican. Bruce said he looks forward to bashing Obamacare as soon as he finishes using it.

Conan O'Brien

#65. Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Alan Bennett

#66. Jesse finishes paying for his drinks and turns. It takes only half a second, but his eyes burn a trail from my dress's neckline to its hem and back again. "The dress'll do," he says.

Erin Bowman

#67. The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.

Laurie Graham

#68. Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.

Jules Simon

#69. History has to live with what was here,
clutching and close to fumbling all we had -
it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
unlike writing, life never finishes.

Robert Lowell

#70. The world starts with a Big Bang and finishes with a human-made atomic Big Bang!

Javad Alizadeh

#71. A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.

Helmut Krone

#72. Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it veru properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending.

W. Somerset Maugham

#73. I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

David Wenham

#74. Oh now now he says that's all over you must forget all about that next week your solitary finishes how about that hmm? I felt like laughing in his face: How can your solitary finish? That's the best laugh yet.

Patrick McCabe

#75. The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mary McCarthy

#76. I'm always saying a mother never loses her peach pit instinct. Even with a grown son, you have to stop yourself from sticking out your hand when your child finishes a piece of fruit.

Joshua Henkin

#77. We may not always finish what we start but God always finishes what He starts.

Rick Warren

#78. Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?

Arianna Huffington

#79. When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Pablo Picasso

#80. Truth may start out timid, but it finishes bold.

T.J. Forrester

#81. It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
-John wooden

John Wooden

#82. I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

#83. There are three times in a man's life when he has the right to yell at the moon-when he marries; when his children come; and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.

Borden Chase

#84. I am planning the release of 2NE1's new album for after CL finishes her solo activities. 2NE1 will surely show you good work until the expiration of their contracts.

Yang Hyun-suk

#85. What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

Rupert Evans

#86. What the Hell am I supposed to do with the extra ten minutes, when he finishes early today?

Georg Buchner

#87. Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can.

Chris Wooding

#88. I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Don DeLillo

#89. To the guy who finishes my sentences and gets my jokes. Even the lame ones.

Kim Harrison

#90. There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Victor Hugo

#91. I want to go back," Daniel says, quietly, with effort.
"Where?" I ask, unsure.
There's a long pause that kind of freaks me out and Daniel finishes his drink and fingers the sunglasses he's still wearing and says, "I don't know. Just back.

Bret Easton Ellis

#92. Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

Ian St. John

#93. That's when I have to ask him. "Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?"
"What? Because I'm a priest?" He finishes the dregs of his coffee. "Sure. God knows what's important.

Markus Zusak

#94. You're a - you're a - "
Say it, boy. Demon of fire. Monster of smoke. Devil of sand and ash. Servant of Nardukha, Daughter of Ambadya, the Nameless, the Faceless, the Limitless. Slave of the Lamp. Jinni.
". . . a girl!" he finishes.

Jessica Khoury

#95. One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.

E.H. Gombrich

#96. It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, world view and thoughts.

Annie Proulx

#97. Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that.

Arti Honrao

#98. She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck ... she's outta this world ... she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.

Tom Waits

#99. What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain

Lupe Fiasco

#100. It frightens me how much I like it," Celia finishes, turning her face back to his. "How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let go. To let you keep me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself.

Erin Morgenstern