Half Finished Quotes

22 quotes by 22 authors

• There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. — David Lloyd George
• Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost. — Abraham Lincoln
• A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts… — William Matthews
• Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to… — Frances Hardinge
• Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf.… — Yehuda Berg
• A painting that is well composed is half finished. — Pierre Bonnard
• I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back… — Michael Nesmith
• Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories… — Ally Carter
• First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge. — Matsuo Basho
• Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — Edgar Degas
• I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays. — Christopher Meloni
• A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. — David Mitchell
• In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence… — Werner Herzog
• Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives… — Koren Zailckas
• Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering… — Lauren Oliver
• Haven't had your fill of interesting events?" "Never. They are the spice of life." She held up her half-finished hat. "How do you like it?"… — Christopher Paolini
• I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all… — Jane Yolen
• A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
• The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead." — Robert Runcie
• The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves. — Ralph Washington Sockman

Who Wrote These Half Finished Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 22 Half Finished Quotes as follows:

• 1 Half Finished Quote by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Robert Runcie
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Ralph Washington Sockman
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Maisie Williams
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Ralph W. Sockman
• 1 Half Finished Quote by David Lloyd George
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Abraham Lincoln
• 1 Half Finished Quote by William Matthews
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Frances Hardinge
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Yehuda Berg
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Pierre Bonnard
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Michael Nesmith
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Ally Carter
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Matsuo Basho
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Edgar Degas
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Christopher Meloni
• 1 Half Finished Quote by David Mitchell
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Werner Herzog
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Koren Zailckas
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Lauren Oliver
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Christopher Paolini
• 1 Half Finished Quote by Jane Yolen