Finish Quotes

1334 Finish quotes by 1048 unique authors

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the… — Mark Twain
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
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… — Philip Roth
...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,.... — Langston Hughes
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right… — Daniel Pennac
Sighing, she gave a brief nod. “I was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And… — James Patterson
Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing.… — Paulo Coelho
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… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they… — Amy Bloom
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — Stephen King
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I… — George Bernard Shaw
By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams. — Jon Stewart
The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line. — Kristin Hannah
It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish. — Joyce Meyer
The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the… — Sheri L. Dew
You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start. — Laura Dave
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant… — Winston Churchill
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish… — Robert A. Heinlein
I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But… — Fernando Pessoa
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
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race — Matt Ridley
I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess,… — Herman Wouk
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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