Finished Quotes · Page 64

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process…

— Richard Willstatter

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a…

— Emir Kusturica

To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the…

— David Bayles

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone…

— Yehudi Menuhin

I was deliciously happy filming 'True Blood.' I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any…

— Michelle Forbes

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

— Henry Miller

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they…

— Jeff Mangum

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

— Bill Bruford

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

— Marilyn Manson

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right…

— Patricia MacLachlan

After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half…

— Charles R. Morris

The moment you're too apologetic about something and people know that something isn't finished, they listen/look for the mistakes or cracks, but…

— St. Lucia

Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself,…

— Richard Carmona

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

Arcadia' was started and finished at the Medici villa in Rome.

— Caroline Polachek

The garden that is finished is dead.

— H. E. Bates

Any project that you shoot, it's never going to be completely finished the way that... I don't think I've ever worked on…

— Luke Pasqualino

You sit down in the morning on your own to write something. You get to the end of the day and it's…

— Dan Mazer

But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn

— Peter S. Beagle

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the…

— Robert McKee

There were definitely scenes I struggled with more than others: the car accident and the thunderstorm are two that come to mind.…

— Mary J. Miller

It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind,…

— John Dyer Baizley

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

— Mike Yaconelli

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

— James Whistler