Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
Kanye West

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

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Ann Landers

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Emil Zatopek

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Emil Zatopek

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
Adele

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.
Franklin P. Jones

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
Paul Simon

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
Paul Simon

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.
Dave Winfield

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
Haruki Murakami

When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.
Craig Bruce

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
Dave Grohl

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
Karl Lagerfeld

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle