#finished

I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#business #called #college #dad #encourage

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#ago #always #finished #happened #happening

That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#commitment #continue #doing #finished #going

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#books #building #finished #four #go

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#finished #man #quits

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there. ↗

— William Labov

#countries #covered #eastern #european #european countries

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#back #build #collection #feel #finished

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished. ↗

— Tommy Smothers

#finished #hard #know #talking #you

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film. ↗

— Richard Lester

#again #album #anyone #before #cost

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#better #days #finished #finished product #product