#finish

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now? ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#asleep #finished #half #head #i

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#because #could #editing #finishing #i

Nature is never finished. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#nature #never

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. ↗

— Don Roff

#finishing #revising #tips #tips-on-writing #torture

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#fairies #finish #hands #happy #house

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#american way #finish #job #start #way

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them. ↗

— Edward Dyer

#come #finish #finish last #great #guys

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#damn #finish #give #goes #golden

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#been #before #finish #get #i

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

#been #documentary #every #film #filmmaker