finishes QUOTES

1 " Truth may start out timid, but it finishes bold. "

2 " Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an " Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all? "

3 " A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. "

― Samuel Johnson , Works of Samuel Johnson

4 " I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us. "

― David Farland

5 " Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. "

― Gary John Bishop , Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

6 " ...if you use a standard called " biological value" to rate protein sources... soy finishes far below eggs, milk, fish, beef and chicken. The food with the highest biological value ever measured is whey protein... "

7 " Extreme night shift work in high altitude astronomy is easily avoidable by using a split night shift where the first night shift starts before sunset and finishes at midnight and the second night shift starts with a new fresh person working through to after sunrise. "

― Steven Magee

8 " She dances a little jig. " This would make one hell of a TV show, huh?" " Yeah. But no one would believe it." I should let it go. But it's like the hole, like the door, and I have to know. Or at least, I have to ask. " Hey, Dulcie, was any of that real?" She finishes her dance and the wings come to rest. " Who's to say what's real or not?" " Yeah, but--my barometer on reality, not so good since I started going crazy. " Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy? "

9 " Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information. "

― Neil Gaiman , The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

10 " I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose, and she never finishes the statement. It seems right, that her words should fall into oblivion; after all, she—like me, like everyone—has no words for what follows, for the unknowable, only her hopes and prayers and an unwavering faith in something more. "

― Kelseyleigh Reber , If I Resist (Circle and Cross, #2)

11 " The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need. "

― Elizabeth Kostova , The Swan Thieves

12 " Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful. "

― Madeleine L'Engle

13 " Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that. "

― Arti Honrao

14 " I am kinda lost, don't know who I am, what am doing, and why I am in it. Everything around me is more like a weird dream.

I wish I could wake up. Before the dream finishes me. "

― Ratish Edwards

15 " It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you. "

― Anthony Liccione

16 " I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand. "

― Nathan Reese Maher

17 " She turned back to Jace. " Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable." Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. " Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y. "

18 " Alexandra, my eldest, here, plays the piano, or reads or sews; Adelaida paints landscapes and portraits (but never finishes any); and Aglaya sits and does nothing. I don't work too much, either. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Idiot

19 " That’s when I have to ask him. “Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?”

“What? Because I’m a priest?” He finishes the dregs of his coffee. “Sure. God knows what’s important. "

― Markus Zusak , I Am the Messenger

20 " The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip...

The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies.

The beet was Rasputin's favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes. "

― Tom Robbins , Jitterbug Perfume

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