Finish Quotes - page 2

I can remember sittin' in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin' until somebody got done so I could finish what they left. (Chris LeDoux)
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! View quote
Kenneth Koch
Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life. View quote
Ronnie Spector
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. View quote
Russell Banks
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish. View quote
Vince Gill
First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good. View quote
Vinny Testaverde
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie. View quote
Banksy
Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance. View quote
Maeve Binchy
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. View quote
Alberto Giacometti
I have added some ploughmen to the landscape form the park pales which is a great help, but I must try and warm the picture a little more if I can... but I look to do a great deal better in future. I am determined to finish a small picture in the spot for every one I intend to make in future. But this I have always talked about but never yet done – I think however my mind is more settled and determined than ever on this point. (John Constable)
Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time! View quote
Kanye West
I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair. View quote
Jonah Goldberg
[What her career looks like] "It looks like a marathon. And I'm proud that I'm not a DNF (did not finish). I'm not a DNF yet. I just kept going. I think that's been the key is just to keep going and really try to get better and try to be as truthful as I can and hope that good things come my way." View quote
Jennifer Beals
The Art of Peace is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the Voice of Peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
I'm a better actor now than I ever was, I wish I could have hurried that up, but there's no way. Anyway, I always wanted to be around for a long time. Like a European actor, I hope I live a long time and that I'm acting until I finish. View quote
Christopher Walken
I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they're actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" View quote
Philip Roth
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. View quote
Octavia Butler
Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish The Magnificent Ambersons I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort. View quote
Orson Welles
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. View quote
François Fénelon
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing. (Robert Sapolsky)
I am out of humanity's reach. I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech; I start at the sound of my own. View quote
William Cowper
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. View quote
Robert Sheckley
In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. View quote
Amelia Earhart