Finished Quotes · Page 30

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

— John Updike

I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I…

— Albert Gubay

I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together.

— Sara Shepard

I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends...…

— Harry Patch

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

— Arthur Bloch

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

— Emil Zatopek

The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to…

— Taiye Selasi

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

— Clifford Geertz

I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that…

— Carey Mulligan

The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the…

— John Updike

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work,…

— Ingrid Bergman

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and…

— William Labov

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s…

— Pablo Picasso

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.…

— Joan Didion

And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of…

— Alexander MacLaren

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving…

— Jacques Pepin

In April [1972], after that fine business in Dacca, Yahya Khan sent for me. He looked satisfied, sure of himself, by now…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

The greatest finish line for me was finishing college - it was a pact I made with my mother, during a time…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but…

— Christopher Hitchens

I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying…

— Quentin Tarantino

When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin…

— Francis Schaeffer

How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,…

— Maria Montessori

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond…

— Anthony de Mello

I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

— Alistair Maclean

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

— William C. Brown

If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

— Lorrie Moore

I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.

— Peggy Lipton

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work

— Gay Talese

Take the platypus - that is not a finished product. It is clearly still in beta.

— Stephen Colbert

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my…

— Derek Theler

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all.…

— Paul McCartney

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

— Lewis Mumford

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

— George Gilder

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

— Robert Engman

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe…

— Louise Erdrich

I breastfeed and I’ll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans,

— Alanis Morissette

The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will…

— Timothy Radcliffe

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives…

— Stana Katic

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

— Anonymous