Best Finished Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What's done is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything ahead, waiting for us." Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to forget thoughts of revenge.”

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Book:Flowers in the Attic

Source: Flowers in the Attic

“I decree and I declare that I am not a raw material but rather a finished product. God knows me and knows the reason for which he created me. I am not here on earth to merely live and depart.”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Is it wrong to wish we'd had time to finish?' 'Not sure I'll ever be finished.' He rises, every plane on his body caressing mine on the way up. 'I'm way too fucking greedy when it comes to you.”

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Book:Fourth Wing

Source: Fourth Wing

“Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus, you will get to the finish line.”

“The time for man playing, 'GOD', is over.”

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Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“May you have the courage to begin; the patience to persist; and the strength to finish.”

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Book:These Words Pour Like Rain

Source: These Words Pour Like Rain

“This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.”

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Author:Jazz Feylynn

“Your future is a finished work. God created your future; your thoughts guide you to locate it and your passion takes you there. However, it’s your attitude that makes you stay!”

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Book:Daily Drive 365

Source: Daily Drive 365

“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .”

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Book:Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished'*--Czeslaw Milosz. *And, I might add, if the family isn't finished, then the writer is.”

Family Finished Writer Czeslaw Milosz

Book:Little Failure: A Memoir

Source: Little Failure: A Memoir

“The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never painted.”

“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.”

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Author:Chris Ofili

“I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.”

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Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.”

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Author:Peter R. Orszag

“Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.”

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Author:Tom Petty

“I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.”

Source: On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?”

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Author:Amy Hempel

“I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.”

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Author:Camilla Lackberg

“I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.”

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Author:Diane Lane

“You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.”

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Author:Ernst Lubitsch

“A negative is never finished.”

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Book:Sigmar Polke: photoworks, when pictures vanish

Source: Sigmar Polke: photoworks, when pictures vanish

“I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.”

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Author:Jacques Pepin

“I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.”

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Author:Oscar Pistorius

“It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.”

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Author:Amy Ryan

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

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Author:Mike Rutherford

“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.”

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Author:Trevor Rabin

“Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.”

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Author:Ali Smith

“The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.”

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Author:Taiye Selasi

“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.”

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Author:Taiye Selasi

“I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.”

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Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.”

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Author:Devon Sawa

“We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.”

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Author:Donna Shalala

“Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.”

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Author:John Sandford

“It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.”

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Author:Ridley Scott

“Nature is never finished.”

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Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.”

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Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.”

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Author:Juno Temple

“I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.”

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Author:Dan Wheldon

“I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.”

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Author:Trisha Yearwood

“Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.”

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Author:Jasper Fforde

“Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'”

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Author:Shantideva

“If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.”

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Author:Sanaa Lathan

“Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.”

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Author:Alfred Molina

“When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.”

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Author:Alfred Molina

“The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.”

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Author:Gary McCord

“I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.”

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Author:Daniel Woodrell

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