Finished Quotes

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

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

A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

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

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

I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was.

A magic effect is never completely finished.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

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

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

Finished products are for decadent minds.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

Who's started has half finished.

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

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

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

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

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

A hug is like a strangle you haven't finished yet.

Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.

Oil rich boys . . . had a nice, sweet smile but when you finished meeting with them your socks were missing and you hadn't even noticed they'd taken your boots.