Top 1200 Finish Line Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I feel like I can make plays, finish around the rim.

Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct.

Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. It's the same with my comedy. I know what my audience will take and how much they won't take. I can't give you a formula for it. It's my own personal formula inside my head. Somebody else's might be different.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

After I finish my basketball career, I join the movie stars.

I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were 'all image' and my current ones are relatively abstract. The sense of the line changed with the theme, somehow my ear (or brain or heart/mind) fell in love with a short line and very very simple words.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

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 difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

I never compete to take part but to finish first.

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

Begin to know Him now, and finish never

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

My fear is we're not teaching competition. We're shielding people from it. For the longest time children, you know, nobody's allowed to win anything, participation trophies. But when you get to real life and if you really want to amount to something, when you get whatever line of work you're in, as you get to the top of that line of work, there are very few people there.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

You've got to be able to finish out the season on a strong note.

We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.

Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.

I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

In cycling, you just race. When you get to the finish, you see the result.

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

I always have the hunger to score, to be on the pitch and finish the team's moves.

It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.

To take the belt from the champ you need to finish him.

When I finish my career, I can look back and then decide if it was good or not.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

If you don't finish half of the races, you are not going to have a very good season.

I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

Every time I step in the Octagon, I always try to finish.

I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

I trailed off and he didn't push me to finish. I was finding that I liked that.

If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

When I finish a movie, I get in my camper and drive around the country.

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.