Finished Quotes
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
Patrick Ness
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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
Ernest Hemingway
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What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.
William Faulkner
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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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There's a book of interviews with John Cage by Joan Retallack called Musicage that was finished the summer that he died, in 1992. And in one of the last interviews, he was very excited to talk about nanotechnology. There's real technophilia from him, a kind of utopian embrace of the idea that nanotechnology will free people up to do what they really want to do.
David Grubbs
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue.
Alan Paton
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My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.
Richard Smalley
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Have you taught a Sunday School class and felt when you finished that you had really taught someone some principle of the gospel that had really helped him or given him a brighter look on life? Remember the feeling of peace and joy that followed? Have you ever taught someone the gospel and received that feeling of joy because he had accepted what you had been teaching? The thrill of missionary work!
Eldred G. Smith
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When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.
Richard Russo
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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 of no importance once it's finished.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.
Richard Linklater
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There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
Francis Drake
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I really couldn't put a finger on it. There was definitely a difference in the team that started the season and the one that finished.
Chris Copeland
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Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.
Michael Chabon
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My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.
Keith Crown
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People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.
Ethel M. Dell
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!
Rudyard Kipling
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I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.
Alan Hansen
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It is finished, is never said of us.
Emily Dickinson
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I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
Roland Joffe
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Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.
Demonax
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A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
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I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.
Ray Liotta