Finished Quotes - Page 40

• We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

  Learned Hand

  Real, Winning, Done

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• A lot of people wonder how a 21-year-old with average power (I finished 89th in driving distance) can be so successful. The answer is simple: I know how to score.

  Jordan Spieth

  Distance, Successful, Simple

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• My teeth are all my own. I've just finished paying for them.

  Ken Dodd

  Teeth, My Own

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• My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.137, A&C Black

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• What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

  William Faulkner

  Jobs, Men, Signatures

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.135, Modern Library

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• I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

  Richard Armour

  Mean, Polished, Speakers

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• The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

  Gore Vidal

  Family, Suffering, Together

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• I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Beautiful, Song, Albums

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• Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

  H. L. Mencken

  God, Running, Religious

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.298, Knopf

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• Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating. It is not that once the blood has circulated it is finished, once you breathe there is no more need of it. No, you have to breathe and you have to go on meditating; every moment you will need it.

  Rajneesh

  Blood, Breathing, Meditation

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• A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

  Art Linkletter

  Better Days, Products

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• When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

  Pablo Picasso

  Relaxation, Painting, Paint

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• The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

  Denis Norden

  Song, Comedian, Use

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• The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

  Allen Tate

  Real, May, Critics

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Couple, Men

  Death of a Salesman "Requiem" (1949)

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• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  Ian Fleming

  Morning, Book, Writing

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

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• Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Thinking, Fiction Novels, Years

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• Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

  Lewis Mumford

  Architecture, Prophecy, Tombs

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

  John Drinkwater

  Song, Art, Connections

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

  John Drinkwater

  Art, Order, Class

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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• All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.

  Lynne Truss

  Book, People, Giving

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• Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

  Mary McCarthy

  Men, Identity, Doe

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

  Ken Burns

  Years, Justice, Stories

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• When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

  Ken Burns

  Mean, Style, Documentaries

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• When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

  Arthur Bloch

  Adversity, Needs, Tools

  Arthur Bloch (2003). “Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition”, p.57, Penguin

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