Finishing Quotes

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.

The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.

So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read.

Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

But-Jace what are you doing?' 'Finishing my shower. And if you‘ve made me run through all the hot water, I‘ll be very annoyed.

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

Part of me regrets not finishing college.

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.

Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.

Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

I'm a long way off finishing the LP, but I've got an idea in my head of exactly how I want it to look and sound.

Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two.

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.

I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

The experience she gained should be invaluable to her continued growth and contribution to our team. In reality, compared to American players, she would just be finishing her college career.

I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.