Top 100 Quotes About Finished
#1. Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
Andrea Arnold
#2. Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.
Bill Mumy
#3. Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.
Elizabeth Goudge
#4. Inter have bought the finished article and there's no doubt he can keep improving.
Mick McCarthy
#5. Men die when they are finished living...
Ben Jones
#6. Wait just a goddamn minute, Josie. We're not finished. No way in fuck I'm giving up that easy. You're worth fighting for.
Maya Banks
#7. The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
John Bingham
#8. The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.
Robert Barry
#9. The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
John Drinkwater
#11. I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams ... It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.
Marilyn Manson
#12. In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.
Roger Waters
#13. If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.
Edward Furlong
#14. I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.
Mary Ellen Mark
#15. A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.
Frank Gehry
#16. Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.'
Kate Atkinson
#17. Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.
Edward Weston
#18. This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.
Lee H. Hamilton
#19. She sucked in a breath. "You're ... "
When she didn't finish the sentence, he turned his head and watched her gaze drop to his mouth, which was only a few inches from hers.
"Handy," she finished softly.
"And you're ... "
She smiled. "Stubborn? Annoying?"
"Set to go," he said.
Jill Shalvis
#20. When I have finished a job, done all the promotion, and it's been received well. Then I can allow myself the luxury of a break, and chilling out with my family and friends, and taking a nice break knowing I've done a good job.
Naomie Harris
#21. Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
Elsa Maxwell
#22. They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better.
Rudyard Kipling
#24. If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.
John Dos Passos
#25. At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.
Gene Luen Yang
#26. You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#27. I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.
Woody Allen
#29. If we're sweeping up the station with a dustpan and brush, just when we've finished, someone will flick a cigarette butt or a piece of litter right on the spot where we've cleaned. There are too many self-assertive people out there.
No One
#30. When I finished my college education my agent said to me ... 'The key to beauty is to be always educating yourself, always learning something new, always doing something new and to have something to talk about.' And I never forgot that, and I think that's how one ages beautifully.
Cheryl Tiegs
#31. If people are still buying tickets, and still buying the DVDs, and they're still watching on YouTube and my fifteen minutes of fame isn't finished yet, then I'll just keep doing it.
Jeff Dunham
#32. Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance ... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do ... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#33. To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.
Walter Benjamin
#34. I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
Patrick Ewing
#35. Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it ... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.
Alfred Molina
#36. You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
John Guare
#37. There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.
Peter Ackroyd
#38. This is just the present chapter of my life. How can I give up when God isn't finished writing my story yet?
Deb Brammer
#39. Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.
Herta Muller
#40. It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.
Maggie Stiefvater
#41. I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
Edvard Munch
#42. And I am not finished," I promised. "Tell me where to find the child."
"F*** you!"
"I'm not attracted to you," I said. "But if by that you mean you won't help me, then I have no use for you.
Rachel Caine
#43. Live every day like it's our last day on Earth together," she said, beginning their new motto as she jumped out the window.
"For forever if we can get away with it," Lucas finished, joyfully following her.
Josephine Angelini
#44. Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
Charlie Daniels
#45. It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
L.M. Montgomery
#46. I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
Bob Dylan
#48. Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
Mary McCarthy
#49. Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.
Jeff Mangum
#50. I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.
Rodney Dangerfield
#51. When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#52. Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished.
Joseph Prince
#53. My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers. He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.
Clive Barker
#54. Mending a broken heart isn't easy. It's messy and complicated, but when it's finished, it's stronger than ever.
Megan Duke
#55. A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.
Rembrandt
#56. 'Humans of New York' wasn't the result of a fully finished idea that I thought of and then executed; it was an evolution. There were hundreds of tiny evolutions that came from me loving photography.
Brandon Stanton
#57. The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
Gary McCord
#58. I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.
Tom Green
#59. I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.
Alan Hansen
#60. I'm not sure I'll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should've said.
Megan McCafferty
#61. The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.
Gavin Turk
#62. Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
Markus Zusak
#63. I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.
Daniel Humm
#64. As soon as we finished filming, I felt like I had been woken up from a magical dream and had to pinch myself to remember that it was real. Every scene is now a blur. I feel like I will be watching it for the first time with the rest of the world. I am nervous. But excited.
Lucy Fry
#65. Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.
Ann Landers
#66. Saracen had finished his barley and was happily chewing at the corner of a sheet that had been spread across a hedge to dry. He had once discovered a tablecloth, and ever since had been optimistic about the effects of dragging cloths off the top of things.
Frances Hardinge
#67. The box was nearly finished now, she thought, although it moved so quickly, in the padded claws, that it was difficult to see ... Abruptly, it floated free, tumbling end over end, and she sprang for it instinctively, caught it, and went tumbling past the flashing arms, her treasure in her arms.
William Gibson
#68. I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.
Pamela Anderson
#69. The finished man, you know, is difficult to please;
a growing mind will ever show you gratitude.
Faust 1, lines 182-3
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#70. Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
Tom Clancy
#71. There is One who remains faithful even when we doubt; One who is a firm foundation when our steps falter; One who holds on even when we let go. Keep your eyes on Him. He is faithful. He said, "It is finished.
J.D. Greear
#72. I say, asshole!" she snapped. To this, Tack strangely responded, "Fifty thousand." Naomi's body went still and, incidentally, so did mine. "For each," Tack finished. What?
Kristen Ashley
#73. I'm still lonely and it's a glorification of something I'm not finished with. I don't want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that's why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#74. When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.
James Patterson
#75. First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius.
"Third time's tradition," finished Erik.
Alethea Kontis
#76. If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.
David Guetta
#77. I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.
Gloria Stuart
#78. That's a fifteen-hundred dollar bedspread. Do you know what that means?"
Jessica held up a finger as she finished chewing, a sparkle of excitement in her eyes. "Oh, yes, I know this one. It means that you're an idiot for paying that much money for a semen towel.
Jewel E. Ann
#79. Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the It is finished! of the Sin-bearer, and says, Amen.
Horatius Bonar
#80. We are only on the edge of change. There is still so much more work to be done. I'm going to accept this award as encouragement and not as accomplishment. I don't think the job is finished yet.
Shonda Rhimes
#81. But greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it. I
Kevin Hearne
#82. From the vantage of the early twenty-first century, it might be more accurate to say, with no disrespect, that Arthur Conan Doyle originated Sherlock Holmes. The rest of us, obviously, aren't yet finished creating him.
Zach Dundas
#83. But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.
Dave Eggers
#84. Genevieve has a secret admirer waiting for her outside reported Annabelle.
We think he's a prince Grace added.
Or maybe a cutthroat finished Charlotte.
Karyn Monk
#85. And no one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn't think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn't think I'd do well in New Hampshire. I finished second. And so we went to South Carolina. In a short period of time later, two weeks ago people in South Carolina had no clue who I was.
John Kasich
#86. I want to die and be finished forever. Don't you want to die?" he said. "I don't know." "What's the point of living if we don't die at the end of it?" In
Don DeLillo
#87. When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.
Cliff Martinez
#88. As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."
Daniel Clowes
#89. Snow
While falling it hides your passage
When finished it documents your path
Richard L. Ratliff
#90. I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#91. Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.
Leo Tolstoy
#92. Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.
Sandra Cisneros
#93. But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart
Mary Shelley
#94. There is a hand behind every curtain,' " she quoted. " 'And a knife in every hand,' " finished Mara.
Raymond E. Feist
#95. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else read the book, and track them down to talk about it.
Susan Crandall
#96. We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness
sensuality in which the whole being can participate.
Anais Nin
#97. When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said no. See, she had a brother who died in a horrible motorcycle accident when he was 18. And I could just have his motorcycle.
Anthony Jeselnik
#98. When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.
Neil Gaiman
#99. Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.
Susan Wojcicki
#100. I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.
Lawrence Welk
