#finishing

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#before #came #domestic #finishing #found

I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#career #every #every time #finishing #i

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This route through early life gave her no small portion of joy, and, indeed, it seemed at first that her desires and her capacities were basically aligned. She wanted to read things--could not resist wanting to read things--and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will? ↗

— Zadie Smith

#compulsion #desires #finishing #intelligence #joy

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon. ↗

— Sid Meier

#civilization #couple #developing #development #finishing

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#gets #oblivion #olympics #politics #second

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time. ↗

— Michel Patini

#best #career #finishing #football #good

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#finishing #first #go #here #rewrite

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals. ↗

— Donal Logue

#close #deals #domestic #dvd #even

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#commentaries #could #deleted #director #doing

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency. ↗

— Tom Daley

#both #champion #confidence #consistency #diving