Completionist Quotes & Sayings

It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime. — Colum McCann

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation
experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way — Paul Theroux

I glanced at the contents of what I was photocopying. They were the rules of the golf club of which Mister Saito was a member. I started to laugh.
The next minute I felt more like crying, thinking about all the innocent trees that my superior was wasting to chastise me. I imagined the forests of the Japan of my childhood - maples, cedars, and ginkgoes - felled for the sole purpose of punishing a creature as insignificant as myself. I remembered, again, that Fubuki's family name meant forest. — Amelie Nothomb

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist. — Jimmy Wales

I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore. — Molly Antopol

I love it when people send me body parts. — Kesha

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress. — Michael Bloomberg

In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism. — Barbara Demick

I said, Because I did not find it commanded in the Word of God. Keel. He said, We were commanded to pray. Bun. I said, But not by the Common Prayer-Book. Keel. He said, How then? Bun. I said, With the Spirit. As the apostle saith, I will pray with the Spirit, and with the understanding. 1 Cor. xiv. 15. — John Bunyan

We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive. — Oren Lyons

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison

I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am. I hope you will give that idea some consideration. — Julianne Donaldson