Finished Quotes

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Anyone who doesn't focus on Jesus Christ and His finished work has neither the wisdom of God nor the power of God.

When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

Nature is never finished.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

My teeth are all my own. I've just finished paying for them.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

Take the platypus - that is not a finished product. It is clearly still in beta.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

Henry's breath hissed out through his teeth. That ba-bad man, he finished, with a quick glance at Cecily, who rolled her eyes.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.