Top 100 Quotes About Finishing
#1. I played in Kent's triumphant Second XI Trophy final team last season, ironically against Hampshire 2nds at the Rose Bowl last September, finishing with 2-17 off six overs.
James Hibberd
#2. Mother Goose chuckled to herself. "Jack is nimble, Jack is quick - but Jack can be such a - " She stopped herself from finishing the thought, perhaps remembering she was talking to thirteen-year-olds. "I think I've had enough bubbly for one night. It's time for bed anyway.
Chris Colfer
#3. Flannery revealed she had been working on the novel "a year and a half and will probably be two more years finishing it." She described her writing habits in a letter dated July 13: "I must tell you how I work. I don't have my novel outlined and I have to write to discover what I am doing.
Flannery O'Connor
#5. Your taste for abbreviation meant that instead of finishing the works you undertook, you finished yourself. You
Edouard Leve
#6. In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
Barry Sanders
#7. Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing - and finishing - a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.
Garth Nix
#8. The style I have in judo is very unique ... One big advantage a judo player has is they have very good posture and - like, wrestlers, they show when they're about to do a take-down ... which judo players don't, and so I kind of incorporate the boxing style with a judo grip and finishing that way.
Ronda Rousey
#10. In the 1960s the planning department of the London County Council, whose unofficial motto was Finishing What the Luftwaffe Started, decided that what London really needed was a series of orbital motorways driven through its heart.
Ben Aaronovitch
#11. I think we were promoting New Moon just as I was finishing The Runaways, and I remember going to Comic-Con with a Minor Threat T-shirt on. I was really happy and excited to be there, but I was so defensive and crazy.
Kristen Stewart
#12. It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.
Gudjon Bergmann
#13. The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.
Henry Russell Sanders
#14. Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don't wish for it to end, or for it to never end.
Matt Haig
#15. And then there is the magnificent Thierry Henry - someone who has blistering pace and is unbelievable when he is finishing at his best.
Andy Gray
#17. All my life, I have taken satisfaction in finishing things in order that I may experience a sense of achievement, regardless of whether the thing was really worth achieving. ... Death, I suspect, will likely be unsatisfying because I will no longer be present to feel the achievement thereof.
Kathleen Rooney
#18. I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
Beatrix Potter
#19. You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.
Gerard Houllier
#20. I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost about 100 pounds and within a year gained it all back.
Al Roker
#21. My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
Twyla Tharp
#22. We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.
David Graeber
#23. Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
Quintilian
#24. The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.
John Eldredge
#25. Not finishing is incrediable... it's open end!?
Deyth Banger
#26. She said she hadn't thought of that. Not finishing the test might be part of the test.
Jesse Ball
#27. (Surprisingly, the term has been around since at least 1782, when Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, wrote in a letter to her mother that her "feels" made her cry and gave her insomnia, similar to how a modern fangirl might feel after finishing the Mass Effect trilogy.) Feels
Sam Maggs
#28. If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.
Marshall Faulk
#29. You better keep your lane on this race of reaching out for our dreams and goals; don't stand in the middle of the road because you will be run over by those who are determined to reach the finishing line.
Euginia Herlihy
#30. I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.
Caroline Wozniacki
#31. Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two.
J.K. Rowling
#32. How terrible to die without finishing a book, she thought. Never to know the end of the story.
Heather Young
#33. Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.
Shannon Mullen
#34. After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.
Chang-rae Lee
#35. After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.
Tim Zuck
#36. Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.
Dale Earnhardt
#37. And then when she takes him through the whole wine tasting process, finishing with a long, languid taste that she really enjoyed "she opened her eyes and saw Nick staring at her.
"I feel like I need a cigarette and a shower after watching that.
Julie James
#38. I was just finishing up my drink then I was off to get the night bus.' Carol grinned. 'Your sophistication never ceases to amaze me. What's wrong with a taxi?' 'You get a better class of nutter on the night bus. I blend in perfectly
Val McDermid
#39. We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.
Christo
#40. I rolled my eyes, finishing off the burger. Rummaging around in the bag, I pulled out an extra-large order of fries. With all the exercise I was getting, my escape would involve me rolling out of here.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#41. Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.
David Wright
#42. I love him to death, there's an Edwardian finishing touch to everything he does.
Helene Hanff
#43. To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.
Marc Jacobs
#44. When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall
#45. I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
Mary Wesley
#46. Oh, and one more thing: if I try something that I've never done before, something that's particularly difficult for me, and it doesn't work out, that doesn't make it a failure. The fact that I actually succeeded in finishing it makes it a huge success. Think of all the people that never even try.
Sebastian Cole
#47. I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.
Brian Kiley
#48. I go up to my room to put the finishing touches on Margot's scrapbook and listen to only the slow songs from Dirty Dancing,
Jenny Han
#51. The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.
John C. Maxwell
#52. No," Roland said, "but it's a fair tale. Tell it to the end, please." Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" "Yeah," Jake said.
Stephen King
#53. Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes.
Tim Zuck
#54. I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.
Amor Towles
#55. An assortment of soldiers and servants hurried about, finishing their duties for the day, or beginning their duties for the night, or possibly just looking busy to avoid being given additional duties.
Jonathan Renshaw
#56. I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged ... I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Erica Jong
#57. The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.
Peter Drucker
#58. It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.
THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104
Richard Paul Evans
#59. I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.
Ricky Gervais
#60. Is he well educated?"
"Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day ...
Gene Stratton-Porter
#61. You must really want to win with all of your heart! Plan your race; do not ever get side tracked. Focus on your goal - "the finishing line"!
Lucas Remmerswaal
#62. I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
Laura Mennell
#63. Attitude gives your work a good finishing beauty. You may be successful in what you do, but when you are not humble enough, nobody may get time to stop by to see what you have to show the world!
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
Sarah Dessen
#65. There is always a finishing line for everyone though we may not all have the same finishing line.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#66. Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
Paulo Coelho
#67. I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery clerk. I went to college part-time at California State Fresno, and then ended up finishing in two and a half years because I wanted to get on with things.
Joy Covey
#68. People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I don't know that people are necessarily finishing 'Hunger Games' and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.
David Levithan
#69. Focus on the journey not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson
#70. Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.
Eoin Colfer
#71. You've been giving me the full-court press since you got here, and we know what'll happen if I let you through that door. But you're leaving. And when you do, I'll be the one who's hurt afterward. So why start something you have no intention of finishing?
- Lexie
Nicholas Sparks
#72. Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.
Oscar Arias
#73. I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the last second and beyond. So I don't think I'll ever have that feeling, unless I'm the one finishing the track.
David Macklovitch
#74. I'm always astonished whenever I finish anything. Astonished and depressed. My desire for perfection should prevent me from ever finishing anything; it should prevent me even from starting.
Fernando Pessoa
#75. Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.
Ernest Hemingway,
#76. there are some things better than winning like finishing with pride
Bemy Wells
#77. The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.
John F. Kennedy
#78. What's the best part about writing a book?
Finishing it.
Rick Riordan
#79. The door opened to reveal Janie gleefully putting the finishing touches of the bright pink polish on Max's hands.
"Nice timing," the solider said with a grimace.
Talen snorted. "You're relieved, in case you need to powder your cheeks.
Rebecca Zanetti
#80. He gripped the back of her neck again in that purely dominating way that made her melt. "We're finishing this when we get back." His voice was a low, raspy growl.
Katie Reus
#81. It's no small feat, finishing a journey," I tell her. "But no one ever mentions that once you get there, you will have to turn around and head all the way home.
Jodi Picoult
#82. When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.
Dennis Eckersley
#83. Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea.
Jill Mansell
#84. They talk about a lot of different things, but I think they definitely have the same school of thought as my husband [Games Of Thrones creator David Benioff], which is that the difference between being a writer and not being a writer is finishing.
Amanda Peet
#85. I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.
Chester Brown
#86. Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.
Sid Meier
#87. Whilst you have not yet reached the finishing line, work hard with diligence and tenacity!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#88. With one hundred miles left to go in the Klondike 200 I began imagining how amazed people would be at the finished line. Entering the Klondike, my sights had been set on merely finishing.
Brian Patrick O'Donoghue
#89. The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
Gabriela Sabatini
#90. I wanted to design the house around my body and my needs, instead of following the pattern that I'd fallen into in my big house: picking paint colors and finishing the woodwork with some future owner and salability in mind. This was going to be my house.
Dee Williams
#91. Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
Richard Rhodes
#92. I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.
Dean Cain
#93. What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.
Robert Coover
#94. There's a reason why you never see large-chested women finishing marathons first. They've been beaten to death by their breasts around Mile 5. It ain't pretty.
Dawn Dais
#95. I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.
Peter Weller
#96. Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#97. For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.
Michael Morpurgo
#98. I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
Carroll O'Connor
#99. I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
Jamie Wyeth
#100. Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.
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