Quotes and Sayings About Finishing
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Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.
-- Amor Towles -
And then there is the magnificent Thierry Henry - someone who has blistering pace and is unbelievable when he is finishing at his best.
-- Andy Gray -
Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.
-- Angela Lansbury -
To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it stood for. To put anything into words was like pouring melted wax on top of cold glasses of jelly, to harden there and preserve and keep what was underneath like new.
-- Ardyth Kennelly -
I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.
-- Arshile Gorky -
The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.
-- Burton Silverman -
Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne -
I was bangin’ 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that’s how I roll
-- Charlie Sheen -
I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.
-- Chester Brown -
Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.
-- Chiaki Kuriyama -
One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.
-- Christopher Willard -
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
-- Claude Monet -
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose...
-- Claude Monet -
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
-- Claude Monet -
It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.
-- Claude Monet -
I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
-- Cobi Jones -
Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.
-- Daniel H. Pink -
I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
-- Daniel Pennac -
It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.
-- David Brainerd -
The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.
-- David Cronenberg -
Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.
-- David Duchovny -
We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.
-- David Graeber -
Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.
-- David Wright -
I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.
-- Dean Cain -
It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.
-- Dick Trickle -
We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.
-- Donal Logue -
In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
-- Ernest Hemingway
