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Finished Quotes by Paul Valery
- In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and this…
- A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Poems are never finished - just abandoned
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- Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's… — Red Adair
- I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But… — Eric Bana
- I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've… — Eric Bana
- By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a… — Eric Bana
- In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather… — Adele
- A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is… — John Berger
- A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a… — John Berger
- To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each… — Sarah Bernhardt
- I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends… — Bill Brandt
- Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. — Edmund Burke