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  • A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
  • What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
  • A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
  • A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
  • I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
  • Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
  • The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
  • I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.
  • 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 of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
  • 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 book.
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  • Benjamin Franklin When you're finished changing, you're finished.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Anna Quindlen A finished person is a boring person.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Art Linkletter A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Abraham Polonsky A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor A man in love is incomplete until he has married - then he's finished.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    American actrice (1917 - 2016)
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  • Richard Nixon A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Virginia Woolf A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Fred A. Allen 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 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Paul Valery A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Aaron Spelling A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Robert Henri A thing that has not been begun cannot be finished.
    The art spirit
    Robert Henri
    American painter (born Robert Henri Cozad) (1865 - 1929)
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  • John F. Kennedy All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Lord George Byron All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Decimus Magnus Ausonius Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
    Decimus Magnus Ausonius
    Roman poet (310 - 395)
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  • Richard Nixon Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • William Baziotes Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
    William Baziotes
     
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  • Bruce Nauman Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • William Shakespeare He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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