Nice guys finish first. If you don’t know that, then you don’t know where the finish line is.
Some people love Sundays; I don’t, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I’ve always loathed. If I didn’t finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I’m a vegetarian now.
There aren’t too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don’t think too many writers can say that.
I actually didn’t finish NYU. I would have, but I was lucky enough to get my foot in the door before I graduated.
When I went back to finish my undergrad, after a long and ignoble absence, my very first class was Intro to C for Cognitive Modeling. Unlike any educational experience before, I aced the class.
I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I’ve just about had it with the book.
People often write after they finish their career, or they don’t play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let’s do it differently.
Test cricket is the only thing that counts. One-day and T20 performances are fine, but you rate a player by his status as a Test player. By the time I finish, I want to play at least 80 Tests and be known for my achievements in Tests.
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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.
As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it’s Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.
Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.
Sometimes a book I’m reading is so terrific that when I finish, I simply turn back to page one and start all over again to see what I’ve missed, to experience it again, more deeply, or because I don’t want to let it go.
When I finish a picture I don’t show it to anyone if I feel it’s not good enough yet. I’ve learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it’s the biggest success if they like it.
Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
Absolutely, Dhoni inspires me. He does it for wicket-keeping and batting both. He is a great keeper. I idolise him. The way he finishes an innings I would like to do the same for Pakistan too.
You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.
I think the most insidious version of crunch is when you say, ‘Hey, I’m working for this triple-A video game; I personally want it to be as good as possible, so I’m going to stay tonight until 10 P.M. to finish this feature.’
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.
I’ve got to take care of the knee to finish the season healthy.
I went to art high school and thought I’d be a painter. Unfortunately I didn’t finish high school, but that’s always been part of my work.
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?
I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it’s a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that’s a chapter.
I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, ‘Hey, I don’t mind you using it, but at least give it a name.’ When he hits it, the announcers just say, ‘Well, he just hit that… thing.’
The only time I really feel tired and old is when I look back; I always like to look just in the front of me. I’ll always feel like I didn’t finish enough, such a short time is left, and there’s still so much to do.
Even though they won’t finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.
My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, ‘This sucks. I’m going!’ I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.
I had every intention of ‘Bloodflowers’ being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we’d ever done, but I wasn’t sure we could pull it off.
Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It’s like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I’m missing.
My life’s been surreal from start to finish.
‘Law & Order’ is a six-month shoot. Everything has to be crammed in. I had so much fun, but it wasn’t a holiday. We had seriously long days, and we’d finish at 8 P.M. and start again at 7 A.M. We were doing six-day weeks, which sometimes tripped onto the seventh. But I loved it all.
When I’m working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.
Nice guys just don’t finish first in the music industry.
It was relatively easy to write ‘The Cave of Lost Souls’, though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story – from start to finish – in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.
Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.
Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
It’s incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1.
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we’d assign each person a verse, you know: ‘I’m going to do the first one. You go for the second one.’ And then sometimes you’d wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up.
You can’t drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn’t actually at the last mile if you’re the one dragging her to the finish line.
The best feeling is when you finish a point at the net.
I did what Jon ‘Bones’ Jones couldn’t do, and that was finish Bader in a minute and fifty-six seconds.
Obviously, you want to win a trophy and finish as high up the table as possible. But it’s important to focus game-by-game.
I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I’ll be like, ‘I have to keep it. I love it too much.’
A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
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.
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.’
My legacy doesn’t matter. It isn’t important that I be remembered. It’s important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ I want to finish strong.
I’ve seen people that get onstage and sing while they have tears running down their face – I can’t do that. When I cry, it starts like in my throat, so when I have something that’s really emotional, sometimes if I access that too much, I can’t finish the song.
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
It ain’t how you start out, it’s how you finish.
