Quotes of: Finished-work Keyword

[On Kane finishing Leland's bad review of Susan's opera singing] Mr. Bernstein: Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland. But why did he do it? How could a man write a notice like that? Jedediah Leland: You just don't know Charlie. He thought that by f...

Citizen Kane

Scotty Lundegaard: [finishing supper] May I be excused? Jerry Lundegaard: Ya done, there? Scotty Lundegaard: Yah. Can I go out? Jean Lundegaard: Where ya goin'? Scotty Lundegaard: Just to McDonalds. Jerry Lundegaard: Be back at 9:30. [Scotty exits] W...

Fargo

Quote from “Unexpected Tales from the Ends of the Earth”: “This is that old well known man, for who I understood that one morning he puts the pistol in his mouth and put the trigger. He is dead right here. But he would never die in that dream. ...

Alexandar Tomov

Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in the midst of painting a forest full of tall tress and hanging vines, it is rather difficult to wake u...

Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life

And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propitious for enchantments and apparitions? Their visionar...

Jean Lorrain

Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people. I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of book...

Salman Rushdie

So rest and relax and grow stronger, Let go and let God share your load, Your work is not finished or ended, You’ve just come to “a bend in the road”. “When you ask God for a gift, be thankful if He sends, not diamonds, pearls or riches, but ...

Helen Steiner Rice

Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge of the history of the human race; for it is remarkable that no transcript of them has ever been made into any mode...

Henry David Thoreau

Trapper John: Finished work for the day? Frank Burns: Yes. Why? Trapper John: Good. I was hoping you'd have time tonight to sleep this off. [Trapper punches Burns to the floor and injures his hand just as Colonel Blake and Hotlips walk in] Trapper Jo...

MASH

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

The Fault in Our Stars

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Edward Steichen

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

The Authorship Program

There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

Harvest

[Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’ list.

Resolution

I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in.

Steven Wright Humor

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

True pain teaches us to grow. You aren't finished yet. Dylan needs you.

Lullaby

Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.

Magic in the Backyard

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

A Prayer Journal

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

The Uses of Literature

It's finished. Everything went past, without me.

A Visit from the Goon Squad