Top 510 Finished Quotes

I’m born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.
Derek Theler
I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that’s what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
Larry Bishop
What we become depends on what we read after all of the

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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
Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.
Lech Walesa
We don’t decide how a movie will be distributed until it’s finished. It might be on iTunes, it might be on 3,000 theaters, but we make that decision after the fact.
Jason Blum
The goal of ‘Revelations’ is that once it’s all done and finished, and you’ve read all of it, it is its own story.
Greg Rucka
The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical goals, like, ‘I wonder if I can do that,’ and it was all very personal. It was more that once I’d finished the goal of what the song was, I was kind of done. It was like ticking boxes.
Dev Hynes
I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.
Kevin Parker
Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
Carl Honore
After I wrapped ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.
Henry Rollins
‘Humans of New York’ wasn’t the result of a fully finished idea that I thought of and then executed; it was an evolution. There were hundreds of tiny evolutions that came from me loving photography.
Brandon Stanton
When I finished touring ‘Fur and Gold,’ I was just like, ‘What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?’ I didn’t really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
Bat for Lashes
I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
Felix de Weldon
When I finished Westlife, we had – Louie Walsh is still managing me – I was lucky to have options from different labels such as Sony and Universal. When we met Capitol and Nick Raphael, I just believed in them the most, and it looked like they believed in me the most.
Shane Filan
The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
Paul Simon
You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it’s finished, is a bit of a disappointment.
Phil Collins
I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We’d like to, we’re open to it, and we’ve been talking about it.
Keith Emerson
My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.
Dougray Scott
Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don’t be ashamed because you’re human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that’s as it should be.
Tomas Transtromer
Unfortunately, my football career wasn’t very long. The reason I finished playing was because I fractured both ankles in a matter of months.
Bradley Walsh
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.
Christina Hoff Sommers
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.
Mark Mothersbaugh
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
I’ve just had the opportunity to see the finished film of ‘The Hunger Games.’ I’m really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another.
Suzanne Collins
I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I’ve always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album ‘New York Groove’.
Ace Frehley
There was no studio involved when we made ‘Stargate.’ It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.
Dean Devlin
I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you’ve finished a big dance that you’ve been working on for so long – I don’t think anything can really beat that.
Maisie Williams
We finished ‘Spaceman,’ and before we were even done with that, we had already been talking about what we were going to do next.
Brian Azzarello
I didn’t understand the Kindle’s true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds – and without benefit of pants – I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.
Jen Lancaster
I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work. For some reason, I always have an irrational fear that the song will never be finished.
Robert Lopez
I haven’t seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don’t know how it will stack up with Survival, but that’ll be up to the critics.
Vic Morrow
After we finished filming ‘Sinbad,’ I went out to Los Angeles for meetings and was invited to a pre-Oscars party. I met Victoria Beckham, Kenneth Branagh, and Gary Oldman. That was quite a leap for me.
Elliot Knight
I have been asked this question over and over again: 'D

I have been asked this question over and over again: ‘Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?’ But that is the wrong question. The right question is: ‘Is America finished with God?’
David Jeremiah
There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can’t be happy with it when you finished 19th.
Tom Lehman
The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You’re finished.
Sheryl Crow
It’s absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn’t a who or a what, he’s an idea. The thing is, you couldn’t continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story’s finished.
David Lloyd
My thing about demos is that you usually prefer them to the finished thing.
Johnny Flynn
Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.
Marc Davis
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn’t mean that the other 39 are bad.
Ken Burns
I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, ‘I don’t know what to do with myself,’ so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn’t sleep… I was 14.
Eliot Sumner
I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they’re going on to read another book. I’m thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.
Caroline B. Cooney
My study of the wild gorilla is not yet finished, and even when it is complete, it will contribute only a small part toward man’s understanding of his closest animal relatives, the great apes. But one conclusion is already clear: The gorilla is one of the most maligned animals in the world.
Dian Fossey
I tell the people that hire us, if we don’t get a standing ovation when we’re finished with our performance, it’s free – and we’ve always been paid.
Jesse White
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I really don’t think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you’re finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.
Jay Reatard
When I’m finished with a film, I’ve been living with it, we’ve been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on. You walk out of the studio and, ‘Ah, it’s finished.’
John Williams
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
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.
Peter Orszag
A song isn’t finished until it’s played live, and then it moves on.
Paul Rodgers
It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you’re fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.
Kim Weston
The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.
Peter Hook