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Quotes About Finished

I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
~ Barbet Schroeder
Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
~ Alexis Korner
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.
~ Graham Swift
It is a miracle the story was ever finished at all, but perhaps an even greater one that a second volume ever followed the first, which was originally published in a tiny edition by Donald M. Grant, Publishers.2 The manuscript of that first volume, wet and barely readable, was rescued from a mildewy cellar. The first forty handwritten pages of a second volume (titled, as I remember, Roland Draws Three) were missing. God knows where they wound up.
~ Robin Furth
Not 'I am finished,' but 'it is finished.' His supreme sacrifice was over. His mighty work of redemption was done. He came to earth to do the will of His Father, and He had accomplished that...By His death Jesus abolished the ceremonial Law and all its obligations, stamping them *paid in full*.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
I know how you love this place, he says to me, apologetically yet with satisfaction. And I don't tell him that I am not sure now whether I love any place, and that it seems to me it was myself I loved here - some self that I have finished with, and none too soon.
~ Alice Munro
If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.
~ Joe Girard
The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.
~ E.M. Forster
And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.
~ E.M. Forster
Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know.
~ Anonymous
The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before you've finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and becomes your first customer. Usually the customer simply wants the product and nothing more.
~ Fred Wilson
I remember my dad bought me my first phone when I finished school. I was a fresher in college, and at that time, it was mainly to keep a track of what I was doing and where I was going.
~ Diana Penty
I want to be able to function and that's the conversation that I'm having now more than ever - playing vs. functioning while I'm finished playing.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.
~ Paul Keating
The idea that commodities, as an asset class, is finished is just fundamentally flawed.
~ Blythe Masters
I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.
~ Amy Irving
Task finished, she sat a few minutes longer, very quietly. Then she sheepishly opened the outhouse door, cursing the squeaking hinges as she stuck her head out. She saw nothing, so she took a careful step outside. She heard a hiss and snarl and saw the cat lurking around the shed, twenty feet away. She retreated, slamming the door. "Shit," she said aloud. "Shit, shit, shit!" So
~ Robyn Carr
Inside him was a bitter, futile anger and a sadness that seemed to be choking him. It was finished. The period of agonizing waiting was over, and now he would have been happy to return to it.
~ Roderic Jeffries
There were unfinished paintings against the wall that look promising because they were unfinished, and some finished ones that looked beyond hope.
~ Romain Gary
Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly 'finished' and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions
~ Malcolm Gladwell
unlike Edith Piaf, I regret everything just because it is finished
~ Andrew Solomon
People must realize that the Christian begins from the finish line. Robert Capon says brilliantly, "the flat announcement of the Gospel turned out to be that the saints were home before they started. God saves us single-handedly!"19 We are already inner healed. Just turns out that most folks don't know it. It is all a completed work of grace.
~ John Crowder
When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.
~ Gerry Cooney