Finished Quotes · Page 25

Even when I lose faith in myself there is something in me that speaks through and says I am not finished yet.

— T.I

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

— Kin Hubbard

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

— Ted Godwin

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!

— Augustus

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.

— Mike Yaconelli

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25…

— Ken Burns

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried…

— John Lennon

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it,…

— Philipp Meyer

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One…

— Steve Martin

I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now…

— John Marin

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed…

— Stephen King

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…

— Tom Green

At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go…

— Sebastian Junger

Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.

— James Gleick

The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign…

— Gavin Turk

The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food,…

— Lewis Buzbee

You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on…

— Beck

...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord…

— Alice Coltrane

I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement…

— David Toop

On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas…

— J. K. Rowling

I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to…

— Virginia Henley

I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some…

— Duke Ellington

When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

— Mason Cooley

Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the…

— Kevin Barry

I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into…

— Jean Alesi

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

— Louis Zamperini

My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

— Rachel Carson

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort…

— Edward Adam Strecker

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand…

— Ezra Pound

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in…

— Joseph Wambaugh

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

— Tracy Chapman

Just finished listening my first song of Justin Beiber. If anyone needs anything I'll be in the closet.

— Nikhil Saluja

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's…

— Paul Simon

I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

— Candace Camp

I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope…

— Gary Allan

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

— Bobby Fischer

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That's the new beginning.

— Anonymous