Finished Quotes · Page 56

Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.

— Bono

They [Barnes Theatre Club] were a very good group, and for some reason when I finished the backstage thing, I just decided…

— Robert Pattinson

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He…

— Fred Allen

After we finished touring 'Ignore The Ignorant' we had this perfect idea that we were going to take a couple of years…

— Ryan Jarman

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished,…

— El Lissitzky

I expect myself to do well. I'm not, like, 'Oh, well.' I'm not in that category just yet. I don't play great…

— Fred Couples

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

— Paul Keating

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

— Anthony de Mello

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

— Mary Ruefle

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

— Lorrie Moore

It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because…

— Andrew Oliver

[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity…

— Umberto Eco

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

— Herta Muller

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

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished,…

— Bill Laswell

Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the…

— Francis Schaeffer

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

— William Morris Hunt

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a…

— Bertrand Russell

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain…

— Christian Slater

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the…

— Alan Lightman

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

— Art Linkletter

Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I…

— Astra Taylor

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

— Joyce Carol Oates