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Quotes About Finished

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
~ Joan Didion
Her rise had been nothing short of meteoric—but nowhere near as meteoric as the tennis world's expectations of her. Her subsequent fall—at least, up until the time of the breakdown—was slow and painful. Not at all like yours. Your fall, if you don't mind me using that word, was far swifter. Guillotinelike. One minute you were the Celtics' number one draft pick. The next minute you were finished.
~ Harlan Coben
About two months ago I finished a gospel tour.
~ Cliff Richard
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
~ Sara Zarr, Sweethearts
You might question the purpose behind this thread or that. But be assured, God has a pattern. He has a plan. He is not finished, but when he is, the lace will be beautiful.
~ Max Lucado
My salvation has nothing to do with my work and everything to do with the finished work of Christ on the cross.
~ Max Lucado
dinner, and by the time they had finished their
~ Stuart Woods
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.
~ Ali Smith
The script of a play is not a finished product: It's a set of instructions.
~ Terry Teachout
I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
~ Daniel Alarcon
Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.
~ Nia Long
If I have something that I've finished with, and someone else might find value in it, the idea of passing along for a price is a rational transaction. It exists in many aspects of our lives. But I do have to say that media is a different beast.
~ Randy Pitchford
At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.
~ Gene Luen Yang
The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.
~ Ben Edwards
did when her hair was washed. When Mother finished she
~ Beverly Cleary
I set to and enjoyed a hearty meal. When I had done, I looked for a bell, so that I might let the servants know I had finished, but I could not find one.
~ Bram Stoker
The fresh diffused light of the salon made them clear and important; they were finished creations in their way, and ranged there motionless on their green bench, were almost as much on exhibition as if they had been hung on the line.
~ Henry James
Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house. What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there. But it's too late to make any improvements now. The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
~ Herman Melville
Yes, after I finished my primary school, I went to the Rock Academy. I was only there for one year. I wanted to focus on my own music instead of making music for the school. So, I quit and started my own label.
~ Hardwell
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
~ Francis Drake
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
~ Ray Kurzweil
The finished aspect of the work of Jesus Christ is real. We don't finish it by our faith. We simply experience it through believing.
~ Steve McVey
I am actually hoping to write a series of books! The Amazon was the first one I got finished and have managed to get published! I have plenty more ideas up my sleeve!
~ Helen Skelton
Deep Throat stamped his foot. "A conspiracy like this . . . a conspiracy investigation . . . the rope has to tighten slowly around everyone's neck. You build convincingly from the outer edges in, you get ten times the evidence you need against the Hunts and Liddys. They feel hopelessly finished—they may not talk right away, but the grip is on them. Then you move up and do the same thing at the next level.
~ Carl Bernstein