Quotes with half-finished

Quotes 381 till 400 of 441.

  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Carl Honore Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Gaston Bachelard Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bobby Scott Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Sebastian Faulks We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
    Source: Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Amy Tan We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • B. W. Powe We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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  • Nick Faldo We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
    Nick Faldo
     
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  • Bill Bailey Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
    Source: Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bill Mumy Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
    Source: over Le Corbusier
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Betty Buckley Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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