Best 127 quotes in «finishing quotes» category

Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

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.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

Good shoes - they're the ultimate finishing touch. In fact, we actually joke in my family that your shoes have to be shined before you can leave the house.

For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

I always say one of my favorite things about making movies is finishing on that last day because I get to have my life back and let that go, and hopefully have a real sense of accomplishment at the end of it.

If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

I'd met Harrison Ford before, but he was just finishing a meet with Jon Favreau and the other producers on the film, and we said "hello" as he walked out and I walked in and sat down and had this meeting with those guys. They basically described what they were looking for, and they thought that I brought a certain amount of authenticity to the genre, and would I want to take part? And I said, "Absolutely! I'd love to!

I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

I'm a long way off finishing the LP, but I've got an idea in my head of exactly how I want it to look and sound.

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

I had a huge advantage with Edward Norton because he's directed a movie before, so one thing he appreciates is how hard my job is, he's very sensitive to that. We actually ended up finishing "Leaves of Grass" a day early.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

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.

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!

I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff.

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?

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.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104

I think we were promoting New Moon just as I was finishing The Runaways, and I remember going to Comic-Con with a Minor Threat T-shirt on. I was really happy and excited to be there, but I was so defensive and crazy.

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.

It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

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.

It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.

I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.