Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. – Max Beerbohm
My mother could never understand why I didn’t write a thriller, which I’ve finally done. – Harry Mathews
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. – H. G. Wells
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. – Henry Miller
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Most employers just aren’t willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done. – Greg Boyle
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of ‘fairy’ is imported as a delicate spice. – Graham Joyce
When you see ‘Lord of the Rings,’ you want to feel like you’ve been dropped into it and that you’re part of it. You don’t want to be aware of how it’s being done; you just want it to feel really seamless. – Howard Shore
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. – Henry David Thoreau
All I can say is that I did admire ‘The Lives of Others’, which I thought was really about something and beautifully done. – Harold Pinter
Prior to ‘Snowpiercer,’ I’ve done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English. – Go Ah-sung
Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven’t done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially. – Hayley Atwell
When the economy is growing, there’s a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit. – Henry Paulson
I can’t say ‘no’ to an interesting role. I always tell my husband, ‘That’s it, I quit, I’ve done all I wanted,’ and he’s just like, ‘Yeah, yeah. Sure.’ – Helen Mirren
My house has too many distractions. There’s the email. There’s checking my Amazon ranking. I know I’m the only author who’s ever done that, ever. There’s the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write. – Harlan Coben
Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect. – Gagan Narang
It doesn’t cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that’s why they’ve done so well. We take it for granted now, but why is it that code is free? It’s because somebody built this self-replicating process. – George Dyson
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. – George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara, Act 3.
For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You’ve been listening in minutia, in super-focus. – Gerry Beckley
A lot of crops depend on labor, but they’re done by farmers that don’t communicate with one another. They’re never in the same room together. – Howard Graham Buffett
My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television. – Henry Ian Cusick
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. – Henry Knox
I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn’t done it up to this point. – Harold Ford, Jr.
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies. – Gerry Spence
