Finished Quotes - Page 23

• It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Reflection, Tools

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• Another point important to recognize is that the creation was 'mature' from its birth. It did not have to grow or develop from simple beginnings. God formed it full-grown in every respect, including even Adam and Eve as mature individuals when they were first formed. The whole universe had an 'appearance of age' right from the start. It could not have been otherwise for true creation to have taken place. 'Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them' (Genesis 2:1).

  Henry M. Morris

  Taken, Simple, Heaven

  Henry M. Morris, John David Morris (1996). “Scripture and creation”

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• I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Thinking, Always Trying

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way." If this goes on day after day after day, year after year, month after month, it would understandable for God to say, "I've given you ten trillion tries. You're finished." But it's not. So in that sense, His grace is always surprising, never ceases to be amazing and His mercy is remarkably outrageous.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, Years, Grace

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• If people are still buying tickets, and still buying the DVDs, and they're still watching on YouTube and my fifteen minutes of fame isn't finished yet, then I'll just keep doing it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Dvds, People, Fifteen

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I don't think there's any single finished point for a work. It's done when something's happening with the work that feels like a balanced, coherent disharmony. That's one way to say it. And where if I keep working on it, to discover and struggle with new problems, I'll obliterate the ones I was working on. I could keep working on it, but it'd become something different. And I value what's here, at the moment.

  Jessica Stockholder

  Struggle, Thinking, Way

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 10, 2012.

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• When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Talking, Doe, Want

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Dream, Art, Book

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• no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

  Uta Hagen

  Art, Static, Performances

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• The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Earth, Fruit

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• I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.

  Kate Braverman

  Book, Care, Mines

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• [I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn't belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was.

  Mary Antin

  Patriotic, Pyramids, Honor

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• I came home for a week after I finished filming Rambo because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.

  Graham McTavish

  Home, Three, Rambo

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• A hug is like a strangle you haven't finished yet.

  Jenny Lawson

  Hug, Affection, Havens

  "Would you like to buy a monkey?". thebloggess.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Look at children...
  If they feel angry with someone,
  they express it, and then it is finished.
  They can still play with that person the following day.

  Dalai Lama

  Children, Play, Looks

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.

  Nellie Melba

  Beautiful, Song, Art

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• When Friday Night Lights finished, I cried for a day. I have a problem.

  Bojana Novakovic

  Friday, Night, Light

  "Meet the Sexiest New Woman on TV". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. January 30, 2014.

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• At the current time we have no plans. I consider my job at this point, and my main responsibility, to make the Wii U and 3DS versions the best and the fullest experience possible. That said, once finished, it's the type of thing we could take into consideration, but for now, you could consider DLC as not being in the cards.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Jobs, Responsibility, Cards

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Past, Games, Impact

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• A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

  Mary Ruefle

  Mind, Finished Work

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.222, Wave Books

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• I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Adventure, Garden

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.

  Gertrude Bell

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Thinking, People, May

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• I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

  Derek Theler

  College, Alaska, Degrees

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• Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand

  A. C. Bradley

  Desire, Done, Deeds

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