Done Quotes

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

So little done, so much to do.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.