I moved back home after graduating from Virginia Tech. And that's when reality hit. I knew I had to do something. I guess it doesn't click when you're that young. I was 19 and had finished college. I got home and had to figure out what I was going to do.

Adam Page

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

A. R. Rahman

Time Music Good

When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

Aaron Neville

Men Year Wing

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

Work Patience Chance

Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.

Abbas Kiarostami

Change Your You

I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

Abby Wambach

Yin World Cup World

I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

Abel Korzeniowski

Mom Men Art

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

Time You Up

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

Ace Frehley

Power York Ways

I can't just go into the studio with one idea and be all in on that, 100 percent. It takes me a while to arrive at something that feels like it's finished.

Adam Granduciel

Wit While Us

For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Adam Grant

Years Year Wrote

I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

Adam Grant

Time Art Yin

I could have stayed at Southampton until I retired and finished my career there.

Adam Lallana

Car Until UN

I finished my degree so I'm definitely hoping I have some more time to climb.

Adam Ondra

Time Tim T

I moved back home after graduating from Virginia Tech. And that's when reality hit. I knew I had to do something. I guess it doesn't click when you're that young. I was 19 and had finished college. I got home and had to figure out what I was going to do.

Adam Page

Home Young You

With the TV stuff, we usually hand in final, finished tracks. The turnaround time is so tight that there's no time to demo anything; you just do it.

Adam Schlesinger

Time You Wit

The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.

Adeel Akhtar

You Wit Watching

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

Time Family Years

By the time I finished my first three films, I realised this is something I want to do for a long time, learn, and grow in.

Aditya Roy Kapur

Time Want Tim

What normally we see is the finished product, someone's performance on screen, but behind the scenes, a lot goes into it.

Aditya Roy Kapur

T Someone Some

After school I went to work at a builders' merchant in Stoke. After we finished on a Friday, it was down to the Duke of York for a drink with my mates and a game of darts. Unfortunately for them I had a natural talent and nobody could beat me.

Adrian Lewis

There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I've had to turn down due to time constraints, and I was fairly envious when I saw the finished product, beautifully illustrated by someone else.

Adrian Tomine

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Ahmad Jamal

I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.

Aisha Tyler

In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!

Alain Juppe

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Alain Prost

I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.

Alan Hansen

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

Alan Parsons

I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered.

Alan W. Livingston

I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

Albert Gubay

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

Alberto Tomba

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alejandro Amenabar

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Books are finished.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft stayed into the shooting script.

Alex Garland

When I finished playing, I didn't think I would be able to replace the buzz you feel at kick-off, but when the light on top of the camera turns red, and you're about to go live to the nation, it is a very similar feeling.

Alex Scott

After I finished racing in the United States, I received a lot of criticism for being dangerous, a little bit stupid, insane, you name it.

Alex Zanardi

After I finished 'The Darkest Minds' series, I knew I wanted to take a risk and work on something completely different - lighter in tone, with a little bit more romance, and a completely different set of characters - that would also, um, finally justify my liberal arts degree.

Alexandra Bracken

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

Alexis Denisof

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

Alexis Korner

Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.

Alfonso Cuaron

When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

Alfred Molina

Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.

Alfred Molina

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

Ali Smith

Do I post pictures of my overflowing laundry basket or the dirty dishes by the sink? No, I'll probably post a pic of the finished meal looking pretty. We're all skewed in what we show.

Alice Levine

I love crosswords! Actually, when I was growing up, me and my girlfriends would collect them and see who finished them first!

Alicia Vikander

In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did!

Alison Weir

I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.

Alissa White-Gluz

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

Alistair Maclean

I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

Allan McNish