Finish Quotes

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. (Helen Rowland)
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's. View quote
Stephen King
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. View quote
Terry Pratchett
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. View quote
Abel Ferrara
The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here. View quote
Hermann Maier
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)
It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another in either an election or horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish line that counts. View quote
Harry S. Truman
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. View quote
Jean-Michel Basquiat
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. View quote
Karen Blixen
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. View quote
Don Marquis
Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that. View quote
Steven Gerrard
Wisdom is to finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. View quote
Mark Twain
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. View quote
John Locke
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it. (Ann Patchett)
To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job. View quote
Chin-Ning Chu
How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line. View quote
Dean Karnazes
Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating. View quote
Jacques Pepin
The book doesn't end when you finish writing it. View quote
Claire Tomalin