Top 100 You Finish Quotes
#1. 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
#2. You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
Brandon Sanderson
#3. If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.
Emile Gruppe
#4. When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an understanding, a realization that we'll never be assembled this way again. That these relationships are severed forever and ever. And each of these films is a little life.
John Huston
#5. THE FIRST FEW WORDS of every story are always the hardest to write. It's almost as if pulling them out, putting them on paper, commits you to seeing it all through. As if once you start, you are required to finish. And how do you finish when some things never end?
Amy Harmon
#6. What's great is when you're shooting at the same hotel you're living in, you finish shooting, put your stuff down, take an elevator and go to bed.
Jon Turteltaub
#7. You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.
Wilbur Smith
#8. Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.
Raul Garcia
#9. After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.
Michael Abrash
#10. Anytime you finish a climb, there's always the next thing you can try.
Alex Honnold
#11. 6If I want to write, I write. So just do it. If you think that making time for writing is a problem, just wait until you finish a book, and find a great aching desert of emptiness stretching before you.
Thorne Moore
#12. Once you finish something, you come to the realization that you can do it again.
Kal S. Davian
#13. I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.
Anjelica Huston
#14. What makes a champion is not how elegantly you start, but how strongly you finish ... !!
Robin Sharma
#15. Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!
Kanye West
#16. It don't matter none where you start in life. What matters is where you finish.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#17. I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.
Kanye West
#18. By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.
Jon Stewart
#19. The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
Maggie Carey
#20. And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.
Lizz Winstead
#21. It's a question of discipline ... When you finish washing and dressing each morning, you must carefully wash and dress your planet.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#22. Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
Jeff Koons
#23. You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
Salman Rushdie
#24. You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
William Shatner
#25. Levi had him flat on his back with a hand around his neck, his face right over Will's. If you finish or act on that threat I will politely remind you that there's more to me than a feather boa and eyeliner. You got me, Slayer?
Mercy Celeste
#26. This book of our existence is everything that has ever happened to everyone in every universe. All the pages exist at once even though you are reading them one at a time. When you finish a page and turn your consciousness to another page, the previous page remains.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#27. Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?"
"You closed the school and burnt all the books."
"Ah, so I did.
Patrick Ness
#28. I will tell you who Jack is exactly when you finish this mission.
Cameron Jace
#29. I haven't gotten fired from many jobs, but you finish a job and nine times out of ten you're just unemployed and you don't know where the next one is. And that does get old. It's stressful.
Tom Selleck
#30. I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?
Shaquille O'Neal
#31. What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
Steve Earle
#32. A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
David Mitchell
#33. When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.
Alex Graves
#34. You finish a film not in the editing, but in the conversations that audiences have with themselves - and in that sense, every viewer is making a slightly different film. And that's wonderful.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#35. This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.
Robert Mitchum
#36. Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
Susan Hill
#37. My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
Bernie Mac
#38. No nerve, hey? Not half a man! ... Buster Jack, why don't you finish game? Make up for your low-down tricks. At the last try to be worthy of your dad. In his day he was a real man ... Let him have the consolation that you faced Hell-Bent Wade an' died in your boots!
Zane Grey
#39. Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
John Jakes
#40. When Angelina was returned, she was embarrassed to confess and admit that she hadn't trusted her. "Why don't you go see her, Giovanna?" suggested Teresa softly. "I want to go for a walk. Can you finish
Laurie Fabiano
#41. When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
Ingmar Bergman
#42. When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's wife and you get kids and tend to them.' I think it is really important to reach for something.
Juliana Rotich
#43. Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."
Jodi Picoult
#44. After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.
Ernest Hemingway,
#45. There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.
James Marsh
#46. There was pain and then there was agony. Hello, agony. I'd been waiting for you. Finish me off. Please.
Karina Halle
#47. That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to say, "I have to find out what happens next," and then I want you to head to your nearest library or bookstore to pick up a copy of Wuthering Heights.
Clare B. Dunkle
#48. Dutiful little wife," he whispered. "I'm going to be a terrible influence on you. Why don't you give me a kiss, and go upstairs for your bath? By the time you finish, I'll be there with you.
Lisa Kleypas
#49. I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.
Diego Ramos
#50. It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'
Valerie June
#51. You finish sending a text and relax your arms and lower your legs and when animals open up like that, they want to fuck.
Caroline Kepnes
#52. Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
Zig Ziglar
#53. I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.
Mahalia Jackson
#54. I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn it in to him, and he or she said, "That was pretty good, it might go better." Maybe that's what I'll try to find.
Craig Finn
#55. You finish a job and it's very emotional because you're working crazy long hours, and your work family is like a real family.
Kim Raver
#56. I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.'
Theo James
#57. I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#58. Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
Salman Rushdie
#59. People always tell me I shouldn't run so far because I'm too young and my bones will fall to pieces. But I do it anyway-mainly because I love the bit when you finish and get to stop running.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#60. When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.
Steven Price
#62. When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get back to work tomorrow.
Nita Leland
#64. Here is a nice fact books and ebooks take a lot of time to be read, but audiobooks just for one day or 2 you finish them... this is a great fact!
Deyth Banger
#65. For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia, in super-focus.
Gerry Beckley
#66. You the white teacher. I thought you one of the boys." Then she paused. "You gonna drink it?" "Yep." "Teachers drink?" "Yep." "That's good. Oh Gawd, that's so good. I got some gin in that there paper bag when you finish.
Pat Conroy
#67. What really matters are the lives you touch along the way and how you finish your journey.
Nick Vujicic
#69. If you finish eating this food, I'll get you a whole herd of giant donkeys."
"That's the strangest bribe I've ever heard of,
Ilona Andrews
#70. Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.
Grace Paley
#71. I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story.
Shane Black
#72. Trials for lawyers are like bills. It seems that you finish paying one, and feel that feeling of relief, then it's time to pay it again.
Kenneth Eade
#73. Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#74. 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
#75. You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.
Jacob Lusk
#76. That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.
Grace Paley
#77. I have found that it's not so much how you start, but how you finish that counts." -Declan
Brittany L. Engels
#78. When you dream you are creating the future, your inner world. By the time you finish this book, you will have a deeper understanding of how to harmonize your inner and outer world.
Ruben Papian
#79. Sometimes when you film, you can be in a bit of a bubble, and then suddenly when you finish filming, it's taken out of your hands - it's not yours anymore, and we all love it so much that we feel quite protective of it.
Kimberley Nixon
#81. I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#82. I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.
Trey Anastasio
#83. It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
Albert Pujols
#84. An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot ... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
Chet Faker
#85. Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.
Matt Kuchar
#86. One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.
Chris Isaak
#87. The best feeling in the world might be when you finish a book and you get to pick out another.
Kira Hawke
#88. By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.
Bret Easton Ellis
#89. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you - finish you - as much as you create you.
Joe Hill
#90. That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.
Clara Hughes
#91. When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.
America Ferrera
#92. It's not how you start that's important, but how you finish!
Jim George
#93. You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.
Mike Webster
#95. When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'
Marvin Hagler
#96. We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.
Gayle Forman
#98. I'm still playing 'GTA;' the online multiplayer is just fantastic. 'Titanfall,' if you can actually get on, is really good, and I just finished the 'Left Behind DLC,' which again, it's one of those games where you put the controller down once you finish and just need to take a break!
Troy Baker
#99. It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie.
Leland Orser
#100. Once you finish paying for college you could reduce your life insurance.
Michelle Singletary
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