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When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and… — Paul McCartney
That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation… — Rosita Forbes
Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you. — Frederick Seidel
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They… — Gabrielle Daleman
But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots… — William Labov
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the… — Mark Mothersbaugh
This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation. — Lee H. Hamilton
The one thing finished in this hasty world. — James Russell Lowell
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful… — Antonia Fraser
"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5… — Fred Allen
The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about… — Augusten Burroughs
Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished. — Bootsy Collins
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of… — Manuel Puig
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had… — Pablo Picasso
She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of… — Tom Perrotta

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