Finished Quotes - Page 26

• We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

  Bob Goff

  Character, Looks, Growing

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jun 22, 2012

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• A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

  Athol Fugard

  Age, Close Friends, Mines

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• And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.

  Harry Mathews

  College, Parent, Upset

  Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

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• By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.

  Mira Grant

  Running, Two, Bay Area

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• The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wise, Powerful, Pride

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.303, Library of Alexandria

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• If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

  John F. Kennedy

  Beach, Strong, Law

  Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

  Betty Who

  Mom, Art, School

  "Betty Who Discusses Musical Influences And Her Song ‘Somebody Loves You’". Interview with Christopher Rudolph, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

  Andrea Arnold

  Want, Film

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• The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Character, Men

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• Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Nature, Degrees

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• I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Lying, Twilight

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• I think that gulf is what makes the work interesting, but as a creator it's endlessly frustrating because I'm starting out with this goal, this thing I'm trying to create, and then the thing I actually do create is very, very different. It's always painful, in some ways, especially when it's just finished.

  Daniel Clowes

  Thinking, Goal, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Projects, Wells

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, "You're not finished with me yet," and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, May, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Editing, Three, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.

  Werner Herzog

  Years, Dating, Radio

  "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't really like to watch myself [in movie] very much, even afterwards. I kind of feel that when I've finished shooting, that's my job done, really. It's not my business what happens to it next. I just do what I do and that's what I love: doing it.

  Richard Coyle

  Jobs, Watches, Done

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.

  Jim Carrey

  Moving, People, Guy

  "Yes Man - Jim Carrey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Writing, Editing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Want, Satisfaction, Talent

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• Some burn damp faggots, others may consume
  The entire combustible world in one small room
  As though dried straw, and if we turn about
  The bare chimney is gone black out
  Because the work had finished in that flare.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Small Rooms, Black

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.110, Wordsworth Editions

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• Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.

  Maya Angelou

  Differences, Growth, Library

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• When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Money, Nice

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• In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Hands, Style

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.435

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• If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, Ships, Tone

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