Finished Quotes - Page 8

• I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Father, Holiday, Two Sides

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• Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

  Bootsy Collins

  Japan, Trying, Albums

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• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Simple, Ukulele

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• Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Done, Evening, Canvas

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• She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeling trapped, dying to return to school, missing her roommates and her cute new boyfriend, the classes and the parties and the giggly talks before bed, understanding for the first time that that was her real life now, that this, despite everything she'd ever loved about it, was finished for good.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cute, Summer, Real

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• A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.

  Gottlob Frege

  Math, Giving, Foundation

  Note in the appendix of "Grundlagen der Arithmetik" (Vol. 2), after Frege had received a letter of Bertrand Russell in which Russell had explained his discovery of, what is now known as, Russell's paradox, 1903.

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• I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dog, Order, Watches

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1964). “New poems”, Vintage

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• You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began

  Alejandra Pizarnik

  Bird, Beaten, Built

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• The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Sex, Cutting

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• Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Righteousness, Performances

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• There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

  Johnny Vegas

  Jobs, Couple, Phones

  "Johnny Vegas: Boozy comic sheds six stone as he tries to clean up his act" by Beth Neil, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2009.

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• So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what I saw through them- particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun
  against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one’s world … they were most beautiful against the Blue — that Blue that will always be there as it is now
  after all man’s destruction is finished.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Men, Blue

  Katherine Hoffman, Georgia O'Keeffe (1984). “An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe”, Scarecrow Pr

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• I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Stories, Dredging, Novel

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

  Alain Prost

  Three, Four

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

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• When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said no. See, she had a brother who died in a horrible motorcycle accident when he was 18. And I could just have his motorcycle.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Mom, Brother

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• I waited a long time, an hour or two, to make that picture perfect. But I wasn't totally satisfied. Then, when I'd finished the shoot, they were about to leave and they suddenly hugged in front of a radiator. I took my camera and that was the picture that ran everywhere - it was spontaneous emotion you could see they were completely in love.

  Mario Testino

  Two, Long, Perfect

  "Kate & William’s Engagement Photo Was ‘Spontaneous Emotion,’ Says Photographer" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2014.

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• We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.

  Joe Biden

  Grieving, Justice, Care

  "US - Syria air strikes still possible". Interview with Jane Cowan, www.abc.net.au. September 4, 2014.

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• I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

  John Lennon

  Long, Pieces, One Piece

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.333, Omnibus Press

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• I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Pages, Six

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• The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.

  Freeman Dyson

  Beauty, Art, Simple

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• I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.

  Michael Gira

  Philosophy, Reading, School

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• The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.

  Celeste Ng

  Jobs, Space, Giving

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• The painting is usually finished before you are.

  Rex Brandt

  Painting

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• I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Emotional, Race, Waiting

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