Finishing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
-- Felicia Day -
The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
-- Franz Halder -
The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
-- Gabriela Sabatini -
There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
-- Gene Tierney -
The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.
-- Genghis Khan -
We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.
-- Harville Hendrix -
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
-- J. K. Rowling -
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
-- Jackie Collins -
Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.
-- Jacob Collins -
To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.
-- James Elkins -
A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.
-- James Whistler -
There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!
-- Jamie Campbell Bower -
There’s always tomorrow.†“Exactly,†she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.
-- Janet Evanovich -
One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.
-- Johannes Brahms -
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
-- John Berger -
She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.
-- John Eldredge -
I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.
-- John Marin -
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
-- Joseph Joubert -
However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.
-- Joshua Reynolds -
I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?
-- Judith Weir -
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. Â The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Â Fear is what blocks an artist. Â The fear of not being good enough. Â The fear of not finishing. Â The fear of failure and of success. Â The fear of beginning at all.
-- Julia Cameron -
There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.
-- Kurt Busch -
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.
-- Laini Taylor -
The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.
-- Lawrence Kudlow -
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.
-- Leslie Jamison -
Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
-- Machado de Assis -
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it
-- Marc Chagall -
Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.
-- Marc Jacobs -
Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race.
-- Marc Mero -
Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.
-- Marie Forleo -
Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
-- Mario Batali -
If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.
-- Marshall Faulk -
Shift often from openness to closure.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.
-- Neil Gaiman -
I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
-- Neil Welliver -
I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.
-- Norbert Bisky -
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
-- Peter Gabriel -
I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.
-- Peter Weller -
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.
-- Phil Collins -
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.
-- Philip Guston -
I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
-- Quintilian -
Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing
-- Ravi Zacharias -
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
-- Richard M. Nixon -
Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.
-- Richard Peck -
The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.
-- Richard Schmid -
I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.
-- Ricky Gervais -
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.
-- Robert Breault -
He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
-- Sherman Alexie -
If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.
-- Stan Smith -
I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
-- Taryn Manning -
A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.
-- Ted Godwin -
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.
-- Thomas Kinkade -
After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.
-- Tim Zuck -
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.
-- Walter J. Phillips -
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.
-- Edwyn Collins -
It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action.
-- John Francis Daley -
During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.
-- Josh Young -
It's not how much you do, it's how often you do it. It simply doesn't matter if you make some monumental effort at any given time. You have it in your to give that extra little bit. You know that you could add that finishing touch. You know you can take that extra step.
-- Vince Poscente -
There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.
-- Cary Fukunaga -
Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
-- Pliny the Younger -
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
-- Pliny the Younger -
It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.
-- Robert Reed
