Finished Quotes · Page 17

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

— Martin Mull

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

— Diane Lane

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

— Ed Harris

I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run." --Alyss

— Frank Beddor

I finished my degree and realized I had a lot of free time on my hands.

— Kadeena Cox

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Finished products are for decadent minds.

— Isaac Asimov

That's what perfect means. You're finished.

— Jane Alison

Cry as hard as you want to... But make sure that when your finished...You'll never cry for the same reason.

— Unknnown

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

— T. D. Jakes

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

— Robert Byron

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an…

— James D'arcy

Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.

— Vic Morrow

Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

— Said Aouita

I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.

— Mary Oliver

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to…

— Frank Auerbach

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D.,…

— Anonymous

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished…

— Dakota Fanning

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as…

— Augusten Burroughs

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years…

— Graham Swift

I can't just go into the studio with one idea and be all in on that, 100 percent. It takes me a…

— Adam Granduciel

When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd…

— Christopher Lee

I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion. I always say to my wife, "Oh yeah,…

— Geoff Dyer

They put me in an office with the TV set up and said "Here's the tape. When you're finished writing your copy…

— Julie Davis

My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell…

— George Harrison

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up…

— Richard P. Feynman

I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for…

— John Zorn

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when…

— George R. R. Martin

If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with…

— Antonya Nelson

About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn…

— J. C. R. Licklider

One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room…

— William Segal

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I…

— Eden Hazard

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

— Meles Zenawi

“I will never see my little boy again,” she finished. “But I am proud of the man he became.”

— Christopher G. Nuttall

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

— Carly Fiorina

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a…

— Patricia McConnell

I used to hate to go to school, because when it was Friday afternoon and everybody was finished school, I knew I…

— Riccardo Tisci

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

— Louis Auchincloss

American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.

— Revilo P. Oliver