An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
Aldrich Ames

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.
Harry Mathews

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

And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.
Stephen Cole Kleene

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
Jacques Delors

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
Bo Jackson

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
David Dinkins

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.
Just Fontaine

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.
Richard Helms

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
Marc Almond

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
Ivy Compton-Burnett

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
Jonathan Kozol

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Marcus Aurelius

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?
Shelley Duvall

But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually.
Joel Hodgson

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.
Reba McEntire

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
John Drinkwater

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

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola