Finished Quotes - Page 9

These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.

C. B. Cebulski

Jobs, Comic Book, Break

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I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

Tom Clancy

Reading, School, Sunday

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When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.

Jeremy Clarkson

Car, Use, Offensive

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When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

Paul McCartney

Beach, Children, War

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That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture.

Rosita Forbes

Lying, Adventure, Journey

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Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

Frederick Seidel

Pieces, Lasts, Sometimes

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When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Book, Years, Obsession

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

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The one thing finished in this hasty world.

James Russell Lowell

World, Hasty, One Thing

James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Wish, Vastness, Wonder

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

Antonia Fraser

Book, Reading, Squares

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"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Morning, Responsibility, Discipline

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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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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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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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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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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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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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When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.

Lisa Marie Presley

Song, Writing, Musician

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Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

Ernest Wood

Thinking, New Experiences, Knowing

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