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Quotes About Unfinished

What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
~ Zaha Hadid
I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
~ Yoko Ono
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
~ Edward Kennedy
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
~ Carson McCullers
Authors use 'almost' to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome - some might say repulsive, tacky, snub-nosed, too direct - in qualifying anything as definitely a this or a that.
~ Andre Aciman
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.
~ Thom Mayne
'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
~ Damon Galgut
I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.
~ Adam Grant
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
~ Mary McCarthy
I believe we move in soul groups; we meet the same people over different lifetimes; we have to finish the unfinished business with those people. And when we do, they walk away from our lives.
~ Shilpa Shetty
Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.
~ Jeff Ament
What I'm really looking to do is retire undefeated; I'm not sure when the right time to retire will be, but I know that I'm not done yet. Something still feels unfinished, and that's why I'm going to keep going.
~ Ronda Rousey
I'm terrified of dying because of everything being too unfinished. I would be happy being a ghost.
~ Christine and the Queens
Biju Babu lives in the hearts of millions of Oriyas. Our party has been named after him. People expect us to carry forward the unfinished task that Biju Babu has left for us.
~ Naveen Patnaik
I am very spiritual and believe that there are souls with unfinished dreams.
~ Manini Mishra
Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.
~ Marcia Fudge
I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest. That allows me to describe the anguish.
~ Derek Walcott
Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.
~ Derek Walcott
I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again.
~ Jon Gruden
I've done so much in my career but a little part of me feels I still have unfinished business here in the Premier League.
~ Ryan Babel
I do have some unfinished business with Josh Thomson. I think that's a fight fans want to see, it's a fight Bellator wants, it's a fight I want.
~ Michael Chandler
I was supposed to fight Paul Daley a while back. I got staph infection in my hand and had to pull out of the fight. There's some unfinished business there. I like that fight.
~ Carlos Condit
Life is an unfinished art, few master it, most just bark.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
I was burning up with scorn for all of them – and I dreaded them too, because their lives were achieved and full beside my thwarted unfinished one
~ Tessa Hadley