Finished Quotes
- Page 3The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.
Denis Norden
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.
Danny Elfman
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.
Frank Auerbach
For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.
Sergio Aragones
I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.
Chris Lowe
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
Jackie Collins
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
Chuck Palahniuk
I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.
Max Azria
Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.
Bootsy Collins
There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.
Itzhak Perlman
By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.
Eric Bana
I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
Dave Grohl
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Jackson
I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.
Lena Horne
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
Francoise Sagan
Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
Nate Ruess
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
John Moody
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.
Raymond E. Feist
Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.
Mary MacLane
If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.
Edward Furlong
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.
Tommy Shaw
Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.
Nia Long