Finish Quotes

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

Basically, nice guys can finish last.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

In fact, if you look upon the situation today, there is great division in the world and we have failed to capitalize on that unity to finish the job in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda.

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.

I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.