Quotes About Unfinished

Her dissertation on Dutch women painters of the Golden Age sits unfinished in her apartment, a half-typed sheet of paper mildewing in the mouth of a Remington. It's been months since she worked on it and she sometimes finds herself staring at the machine's bullnose profile or the chrome-plated carriage return, thinking: Remington also makes rifles.

When I´m done, I put the letter in my diary instead of in my hat box. I have a feeling I´m not done-done yet, that there´s still more I need to say, I just haven´t thought of it yet.

A completed mediocre idea is infinitely better than an unfinished stroke of genius.

His ashes were scattered on the sea he never finished crossing.

S tim je tipovima isto tako, podsje?aju na zapo?eto i malkice nedovršeno. Kao da su se zaustavili i ?ekali na nastavak evolucije ili stvaranja, kao da su ?ekali što ?e se još dogoditi i živjeli u neprestanoj sadašnjosti, koja se stalno preobli?uje u prošlost.

The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

the unfinished grieving, the foul, flat country.

It's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.

Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.

But while Nelson Mandela's work is sadly done, his dream is unfinished.

One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.

Many of my better short stories are just the last chapters of novels I did not write.

art is never finished, only abandoned

All I mean is that I left too much of me unfinished because I wasted too much time."--

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

I've lived a life of unfinished things.

In all honesty, the difficulties with their house were mild, and most resolved. The problem seems to be with work that was not finished properly, something a tribute to pull in park to the race to build houses as fast as possible throughout Celebration.

As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Joe had been explaining things in the meantime. He said it was again the beginning of the unfinished, the re-discovery of the familiar, the re-experience of the already suffered, the fresh-forgetting of the unremembered. Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular and by nature it is interminable, repetitive and very nearly unbearable.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.