Every team dreams of playing the Champions League final – Porto just as much as Real Madrid.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
‘The Imitation Game’ is a celebration of Alan Turing’s life and legacy, and Joan’s final monologue is our eulogy. It’s the thing we all wished we could have said to him.
It’s humiliating for Barack Obama and, therefore, the United States to have American sailors held hostage during his final State of the Union.
Swish: A made basket. Swoosh: The Nike logo. Swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh: A thousand coaches in nylon tracksuits, walking through hotel lobbies at the Final Four.
My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.
What was scaring me was if we lost, I didn’t know how I’d play cricket again. This was such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a World Cup final at Lord’s.
Yeah it would be really cool to disappear. Like Jack Nicholson in ‘The Passenger.’ Isn’t that the final frontier? Being able to erase everything everyone knows about you and just be a stranger has become extremely seductive.
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
In a final, it’s winning that counts, it’s not the style of play that people remember.
It’s 2010. I’m forty-three years old. I’ve just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it’s a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I’m finally coming into my own.
I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like ‘These two boys’ names are top 10 boys’ names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they’re both names of Jesus’ apostles.’ Now, obviously that’s not a knowable fact.
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It’s a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we’re losing a little bit of that right now.
Everyone goes on about Manchester United all the time, but they’re just another team in the final. I don’t see it as anything special.
For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On ‘The Final Destination,’ they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I’d shoo her away. I’m a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
What kid who was playing basketball didn’t have the dream about going to the NBA? It’s the biggest and final step.
It’s always difficult when you have had a game in midweek to get to a final.
Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It’s the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.
For my part, if I’m working while flying, I’m often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I’m a slacker.
I can’t drag myself away from ‘Final Cut Pro.’ It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can’t use it.
Dickens’s final book, ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, ‘The Last Dickens’. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.
The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can’t know. And so it’s not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
I’m very grateful for the other bands and artists that stood up for us with a view to our induction – that’s nice of them. But I wish that the Hall Of Fame had had the discretion to ask us first. It’s now become a debate in which we are too late to have the final word.
A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, ‘Mass Effect 2’ was the game that created a world of characters that I actually cared about. When it came down to making those tough decisions during the final mission, I actually had to put the controller down and think about my choices.
I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It’s a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.
It’s a great thing to play a final in your capital city.
In the five months I wrote the final draft of ‘The Association of Small Bombs,’ I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God. And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood. Now, do I believe in climate change? In my trip to Greenland, the answer is yes. The climate is changing.
In December 2014, during the final days of the Umbrella Movement, prominent signs proclaiming We’ll Be Back sprang up along Harcourt Road, one of the three major thruways occupied by peaceful pro-democracy protesters for nearly three months.
When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.
There’s a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an ‘A’ in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.
I’m so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I’ve had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.
The difference between doing a live show and a sitcom is that a sitcom can live on. If you do it well, it can leave a legacy, whereas most of our live work never gets repeated because it’s final, it’s done, you start again.
When my two boys were growing up and asking me about what I did and what kind of player I was I showed them all the matches from the European Championships in 1988 when we beat Germany in the semi-final and won the final against Russia.
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
I tried out for ‘Tough Enough’ season 2 originally and made it to the final casting episode and got cut by Kevin Dunn, who said all I wanted to do was run and flip and jump.
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
The final disease that nature inflicts on us will determine the atmosphere in which we take our leave of life, but our own choices should be allowed, insofar as possible, to be the decisive factor in the manner of our going.
I had my chance in the World Cup Final and, wow, it was the opportunity I needed to show the whole world what I was capable of.
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
I want all the mistakes to be mine, and I want to take responsibility for everything even if I fail. Whatever the project is, I need to have the final say.
I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.
I wanted to do ‘2001’ from Hal’s perspective. What it finally ended up being was ‘Final Destination’ in space.
There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
Cynicism doesn’t have its way in series finales. My emotional desire when I watch a series come to an end is to be crying and laughing and cheering as the final credits roll, feeling like I just got delivered the happy ending, whether the plot ends happily or not.
Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts.
El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.
Once you step on the court, you see the crowd, you see the final, you see I’m here playing another Wimbledon final.
I won the title three times with Ajax; I played in the Champions League final and won the league title with Atletico. I have also played in the World Cup.
With my own videos, I definitely have more control over what I want to put out there and what I want to say. With the TV show, I’m not the editor. There’s always things that I wanted to put in there. My dad has the final say in everything on YouTube, but I can be more expressive.
