You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.
I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A. M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.
The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
Every time I finish a song. . . most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of the time it's just in your head.
It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.
I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.
At the finish, it was all over
It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.
Life is the only race you'll run where you don't know where the finish line is.
There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.
I would rather start a family than finish one.
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.
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 all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.
Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.