Finished Quotes

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

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.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

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.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

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.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.

That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!

The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.