Finished Quotes

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

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

I only finished first grade.

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

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

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Nature is never finished.

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.