Finals Quotes

• It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Term
  • Engineering
  • Ancient

• I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn't really matter who I play in the final. I'll be in there as the big favorite. But I play my best in the finals, in the important matches. That's why I'm number one. There's no secret...I'm not overconfident, but very confident.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Important
  • Play
  • Matter

• As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Car

• Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Administration
  • Finals

• It lighting the set up is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Artist
  • Drawing
  • Application

• I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

  

  Milarepa
  • Possession
  • Finals
  • Initials

• Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

  

  Herbert Kaufman
  • Prove
  • Score
  • Ran

• I want to win a ring. I want to have the opportunity to get back to the Finals. All that matters is us getting into the playoffs, because then, anything can happen.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Opportunity
  • Win
  • Playoffs

• The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

  

  Nick Cohen
  • Made
  • Evidence
  • Finals

• I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

  

  Stephen Karam
  • Play
  • Choices
  • Stills

• Look at me - I was the boo boy for years and years. Did I ever think I would end up in Hollywood or the FA Cup final? No, I didn't.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Thinking
  • Boys
  • Ends

• I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test and test and test it, whatnot. Having said that, there's one sequence we're adding back into the movie for the extended cut that is pretty amazing that I think people are going to love.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Said

• My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Mother
  • House
  • Nice

• For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Hope
  • Innocence
  • Expected

• You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.

  

  Nomar Garciaparra
  • Long
  • Problem
  • Play

• We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

  

  Will Schwalbe
  • Book
  • Conversation
  • Acknowledge

• The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.

  

  Willy Ley
  • Water
  • Study
  • Finals

• Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable.

  

  Chris Bradford
  • Destination
  • Impatience
  • Hindrance

• At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

  

  Michel Platini
  • Groups
  • Winner
  • Finals

• I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals.

  

  Ray Allen
  • World
  • Dream
  • Winning

• For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.

  

  Catherine Yass
  • Film
  • Photograph
  • Fingers

• The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Government
  • Finals
  • Restraint

• History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Series
  • Singularity
  • Approximation

• You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the finals tonight. Tonight will be the big race.

  

  Alyson Ackman
  • Race
  • Plan
  • Finals

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