Finish Quotes - page 26

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way. (Paul Wolfowitz)
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first. View quote
Jackie Robinson
When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.' View quote
T-Pain
I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping. View quote
Stella McCartney
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite. View quote
Amy Tan
History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too. View quote
Jimmy Carter
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. . . . I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out. View quote
Erica Jong
My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them. View quote
George Clooney
Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's just the starting blocks. Tithes can be the training wheels to launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving. View quote
Randy Alcorn
I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up. (Kobe Bryant)
Last guys don't finish nice. View quote
Saul Alinsky
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal. View quote
Joan Didion
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading. View quote
Diana Gabaldon
My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. View quote
Derek Jarman
The first question that I was asked on my post retirement was how does it feel to finish with 619 wickets without spinning the ball. I said it is nice that it took 18 years to realise that. View quote
Anil Kumble
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story. View quote
Ellen G. White
I never really see a book in the context of what went before because when I finish a book I try to press the delete button so that it's wiped off the hard drive... View quote
Caryl Phillips
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. View quote
Jeff Koons
On Miss World (BBC 1) Patrick Lichfield and Sacha Distel helped herd the beef. Even further down-market, The Royal Variety Performance (BBC 1) was hosted by Max Bygraves, who tried the time-honoured gimmick of singing the finale at the start. 'And if you doan like our finish / You doan have to stay for the show.' Thanks. Click. (Clive James)
I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience. View quote
Joss Whedon
When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself. View quote
Pierre Cardin
When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty. View quote
Jean-Claude Van Damme
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station. View quote
John Irving