Unfinished Quotes - Page 10

• This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.

  Dana Gioia

  Prayer, Loss, Past

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.65, Graywolf Press

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• [the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality

  Anton Webern

  Eye, Reality, Years

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• Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Degrees, Half

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.262

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• I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.

  Trina Robbins

  Artist, Superhero, Causes

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

  William J. Clinton

  Horse, Race, Election

  "Bill Clinton; Sens. Webb & Kyl; Gov. Paterson". "Meet the Press", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 27, 2009.

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• In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that

  George Carlin

  Garbage Cans, Guy, Body

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Book, Found, Written

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• It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Adventure, Artist, America

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.

  Walt Disney

  Break Even, Bankers, Negative

  "The Walt Disney Story". Documentary, April 8, 1973.

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