Top 50 Unfinished Quotes

The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I didn’t do any of my homework for days and days at a stretch, and kept stalling my teacher that I was extremely unwell and was under heavy medication.

There was no sense of burden, like, ‘I now must carry on Robert Kennedy’s unfinished work.’ Absolutely not.

I always write three or four projects at the same time. They’re stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it.

For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase, and a door that swung out onto a little front stoop. The windows opened, and the roof retracted on one side, revealing an attic.

I work every day. I write every day. I walk around in silent conversation with my latest unfinished songs.

Everyone’s got unfinished business with Barcelona. They’re the greatest team in the world.

What’s nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad… until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don’t need our help.

I don’t like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy’s assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

Biju Babu lives in the hearts of millions of Oriyas. Our party has been named after him. People expect us to carry forward the unfinished task that Biju Babu has left for us.

I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again.

When I’m playing, I’m never through. It’s unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That’s where the high comes in.

What I’m really looking to do is retire undefeated; I’m not sure when the right time to retire will be, but I know that I’m not done yet. Something still feels unfinished, and that’s why I’m going to keep going.

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Never leave a crossword unfinished.

My final fight was called ‘Unfinished Business’ – and I finished it.

It’s now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

I wanted to fulfil the unfinished agenda of my father, which was to solve the problems of farmers, daily wage workers, and downtrodden people, irrespective of their caste and religion.

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world – God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

Good, well-defined, well-honed art is not a foreign language. You can sell it to people. You just have to move your ego out of the way, clear out the unfinished fantasies you have about being an artist yourself, and just sell it.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind’s unfinished challenges.

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

I… now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that’s out of shape and behind the times.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation’s history.

Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.

If I feel like I’ve completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can’t go any further with it, then I stop, even if the song is unfinished. Most of the time, when it’s finished, it’s because I’ve used every ounce of me to write it.

If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see, and it is the same with my music. I’ve got so many pieces of music and songs waiting to be heard.

You don’t get ‘The Unfinished Swan’ or ‘Shadow of the Colossus’ or even Telltale’s ‘Walking Dead’ until you’ve sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like ‘Metal Gear Solid’.

I feel unfinished business with the WBO title because that was my first loss when I went to New Zealand with Joseph Parker.

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest. That allows me to describe the anguish.

I’ve done so much in my career but a little part of me feels I still have unfinished business here in the Premier League.

You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.

Anybody great, we’re all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you’d still want to see it.

I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.

I’m terrified of dying because of everything being too unfinished. I would be happy being a ghost.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

‘Blackbird’ is the only one I’ve ever wanted to redo. It just haunted me, this play. There was a sense of unfinished business because at the time we did it at Manhattan Theatre Club, there was real momentum to move it to Broadway.

I have a lot of novels that I haven’t finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it’s not going anywhere. I don’t publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the ‘Unfinished Symphony.’

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.