For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them.
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.
Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.
Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.
A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.
A hug is like a strangle you haven't finished yet.
The whole journey of style-driven subcultural movements is finished now in the UK. The internet kind of killed it.
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.
Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.
I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.
I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.
God. . . sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it. . . and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.
A negative is never finished.
The greatest finish line for me was finishing college - it was a pact I made with my mother, during a time when she fell ill. That happened during my Freshman year, and unfortunately she never saw me compete in the Olympics. But she really wanted me to finish college, because she never finished Junior High.