Finally Quotes
3507 quotes by 2476 authors
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Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full…
— Andrew Jackson Downing
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I'm quite happy there is a man in the world who can overcome my record, finally.
— Larisa Latynina
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One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.
— James Salter
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Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has…
— Romare Bearden
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It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though…
— Maureen Corrigan
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There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
— Sue Miller
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There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then…
— Dan DeCarlo
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It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just…
— Brandon Routh
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Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose…
— Catharine Cox Miles
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When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from…
— Rosellen Brown
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By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.
— Richard W. Fisher
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I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it was," said Nick. "Let's climb…
— Jack Handey
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It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto…
— Jack Handey
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The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much,…
— Jack Handey
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Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant,…
— Jack Handey
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If there was a terrible storm outside, but somehow this dog lived through the storm, and he showed up at your door when the storm…
— Jack Handey
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I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a…
— Erma Bombeck
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The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got
— Jimmy Greaves
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When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything…
— Cliff Sloan
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It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to…
— Richard Corliss
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