Unfinished Quotes

I don't like the word "experiment" in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished.

Door’s locked,” he said. “And we have unfinished business.

Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

The unfinished is nothing.

Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

We are an unfinished nation.

With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there.

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

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

There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'

Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security

When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation.

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.