Unfinished Works Quotes

#1. I suppose one must be serious sometimes.

Oscar Wilde

#2. [A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

Gautama Buddha

#4. I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

John Piper

#5. Thus, little by little, through training the mind, you can change your habitual way of being.

Matthieu Ricard

#6. I don't have birthdays.

Mary Quant

#7. Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and in every respect unfinished; but they are truly valuable ... they give the idea of a whole.

Joshua Reynolds

#8. If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

Robert Musil

#10. Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

Mike Figgis

#11. BAM said the Lady, move on

Nathan Fillion

#12. When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. The editing of a good piece of writing is like the editing of one's life: never quite complete; rendering all, ultimately, unfinished works when we perish from this earth.

K.C. Woodworth

#14. I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

James K. Polk

#15. I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

Dave Barry