Quotes of: Finish-line Keyword

I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.

Love

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

Victor Cruz

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

Werner Herzog

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

A. N. Wilson

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

Witold Pilecki

I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.

Alan Hansen

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

Ben Whishaw

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there fo...

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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.

Ian St. John

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

Philipp Meyer

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

Richard Price

Mike Shiner: Give me a cue again. Riggan: Okay. "Hey, I'm the wrong person to ask. I don't actually know the man, I've heard his name mentioned in passing. I don't know, you'd have to know the particulars. I think what you're saying..." Mike Shiner: ...

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.

Taissa Farmiga

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

Ulrich Beck

I always know my lines.

Vivien Leigh

And more than the quality of its institutions, what distinguishes a developed country from a developing one is the degree of consensus in its politics, and thus its ability to take actions to secure a better future despite short-term pain.

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

When we really understand it, we will always find grace offensive. And that's exactly the way it should be. If we start to feel comfortable with grace, then we've lost what it really means.

Faith, Doubt, and Other Lines I've Crossed: Walking with the Unknown God

The most pressing problem facing America can't be solved in Washington DC. True hope and change can't be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It can only be found at the foot of the cross on Calvary.

God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values

I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have while, day in and day out, word by word and line by line, con...

Beginner's Luke

This look said I was uncomfortably near some line. Nikos had a lot of lines, all hidden. If you shot a marble in on one side of his personality, instead of coming out the other it would bounce on secret internal walls and shoot out in some unpredicta...

The Bite of Silence

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World