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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney
Long
,
Left
,
Grow
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
Education
,
Until
,
Dies
Painting completed my life.
Frida Kahlo
Life
,
Painting
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Jean Anouilh
Work
,
Power
,
Mind
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Richard M. Nixon
Tomorrow
,
Before
,
America
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
William Jennings Bryan
Until
,
Population
,
Totality
The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.
James Buchan
History
,
Truth
,
Political
My first album was completed in three months.
Adam Lambert
Three
,
Months
,
Album
With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
Twyla Tharp
Mother
,
Children
,
High
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
J. C. Watts
Life
,
Work
,
Time
An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
Donald Cram
Faith
,
Work
,
Time
Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.
Theresa May
Simple
,
Justice
,
Through
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
Jane Smiley
Death
,
Famous
,
Before
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'
Arthur Eddington
Forget
,
Two
,
Study
I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
Tre Cool
School
,
Successful
,
Rich
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
Orville Wright
Power
,
End
,
Few
I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.
Danielle Steel
Old
,
Novel
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Tom Wolfe
Art
,
Romantic
,
Long
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Time
,
Task
,
Currently
Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.
Jon Landau
Artist
,
Film
,
Final
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
Anish Kapoor
Work
,
Circle
,
Imminent
Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
Gael Garcia Bernal
Mean
,
Country
,
Made
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
Mary McCarthy
Life
,
Moment
,
Again
It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.
Karen Russell
Family
,
Book
,
Another
The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.
Doc Hastings
Travel
,
Care
,
State
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.
LeRoy Neiman
Life
,
Big
,
Difficult
Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
James MacArthur
Success
,
Good
,
Lord
What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.
Jim Jarmusch
Happen
,
Two
,
Before
The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.
Lucas Papademos
Crisis
,
Country
,
Storm
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
Book
,
After
,
Write
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