Quotes of: Finish-line Keyword

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.

Anthony Warlow

It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

Bruce Cockburn

For while it is of no particular importance how many things you start in life, it is of great importance how many you finish!

Life

The most important thing to do when writing a book is to finish it.

Life

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Virginia Woolf

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

Wynton Marsalis

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

Donna Tartt

Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.

Gena Showalter

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

Gay Talese

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

Helen Oyeyemi

'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.

Stanley Hauerwas

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the ...

Maxine Kumin

The line between ego and healthy self-esteem is very delicate. We should know when we cross this line, switch side, and become egotistical.

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

The Silver Linings Playbook

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

The Silver Linings Playbook

... Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.

The Silver Linings Playbook

And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?

The Silver Linings Playbook

Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem for another

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

Good boundaries, created by the use of good intimacy skills, keep a committed or intimate relationship lightly balanced between the needs of the individual and the needs of the relationship.

Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh...

Steve Martin