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

A finished person is a boring person.
Anna Quindlen

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

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.
Clyfford Still

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
Abraham Polonsky

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.
John Bates Clark

A lot of films come out before they're finished.
Ed Harris

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia Woolf

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
Howard Hodgkin

A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.
Nicholas Meyer

A show is like having a climax. It's like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it's all finished, and you don't know what to do next.
Rod Stewart

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
Aaron Spelling

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

About two months ago I finished a gospel tour.
Cliff Richard

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.
Tracy Chapman

After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
Harry Mathews