Finished Quotes
1493 Finished quotes by 1163 unique authors
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A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it…
— Sarah Vowell
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...For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas...
— Ally Carter
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I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
— Roald Dahl
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The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form…
— Dave Barry
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When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech…
— John Steinbeck
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Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when…
— Ronald Reagan
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But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe…
— Robert Fulghum
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this time has finished me.
— Charles Bukowski
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I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth,…
— Richelle Mead
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Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you…
— Monica Ali
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some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a…
— Louise Erdrich
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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
— Sara Zarr
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and…
— Ann Brashares
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It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened…
— William Faulkner
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
— Ernest Hemingway
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...When it was finished, the scaled dragon looked around and as the thing spotted V, a growl rippled up to the bleachers, then ended in…
— J R Ward
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Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,…
— Anais Nin
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A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.
— Virginia Euwer Wolff
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The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger…
— Janet Evanovich
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Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I…
— Ingmar Bergman
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I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop.…
— Chris Cleave
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When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.
— James Patterson
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Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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