THIS little work was finished in the year 1803, and…

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and…

— Meriwether Lewis

It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New…

— George Washington Cable

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

— Daniel H. Pink

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color…

— Clyfford Still

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

— John Cage

“If she finished her work—hah, now there was a fantasy, this work would never be finished, only abandoned, or, all right, passed on—she might…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small…

— Barack Obama

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

— Alexandre Dumas

“Only Jesus’ work is a finished work.”

— Joseph Prince

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

— Rachel Carson

“Is your work finished or is it just due?”

— Laura Ruby

“A work is finished when we can no longer improve it, though we know it to be inadequate and incomplete. We are so overtaxed…

— Emil M. Cioran

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life…

— John James Audubon

I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does…

— Maya Angelou