Finished Quotes · Page 21

“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.”

— Nelson DeMille

I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished.

— Paul F. Tompkins

In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that…

— Roger Waters

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…

— John Guare

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

— Uta Hagen

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an…

— Howard Hodgkin

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to…

— Donatella Versace

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times;…

— Megan Chance

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But…

— Eric Bana

Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

My husband makes me stay totally quiet in movies because otherwise it's [five minutes in] and I go, "Oh, so-and-so did it,"…

— Nancy Grace

I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to…

— George Lucas

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his…

— Dean Koontz

If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people…

— Caitlin Rose

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've…

— Julian Casablancas

I had just finished reading The Day of the Locust when this piece was brought to my attention, and I was like,…

— Matt Bomer

I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I…

— Muhammad Yunus

Have I then no work to work in this great matter of my pardon? None. What work canst thou work? What work…

— Horatius Bonar

In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just…

— Gaspar Noe

The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make,…

— Kingsley Amis

Surveys show that more than 50 percent of people in the U.S. have prayed the sinner's prayer and think they're going to…

— J. D. Greear

It was dirty and hot, and you're on a horse, all day. It was physical work, but there wasn't one of us…

— James Badge Dale

My original book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] was 1,700 pages. The first editor brought it down to 700; there was…

— Angela Alioto

We finished series four of 'Hetty Wainthropp', we were told there was going to be series five.

— Patricia Routledge

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

— Itzhak Perlman

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

— Walter Matthau

When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.

— Craig Bruce

After I wrapped 'Sons of Anarchy,' I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in…

— Henry Rollins

When you're in sports, you have such a limited time and then, it's all over with, finished.

— Bruno Sammartino

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the…

— Yoko Ono

What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.

— Juno Temple

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

— Paul Simon

There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and…

— Ashfaqulla Khan

“That look. That one damn look from you and I’m finished. You own me, baby.”

— Scarlet Wolfe

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at…

— Lena Headey

It is fine to be all focused on gymnastics if that is what you want to do, but once you are finished…

— Amy Chow

“(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois”

— Jan Greenberg

Don't be intimidated by the size of your problem or the size of your dream. God will see to it that it…

— Joel Osteen

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.

— Kelly Corrigan