Samuel Rogers Quotes

I feel there's everything to do yet.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

In my heart, I'm so far from done.

Last guys don't finish nice.

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.

My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'

A negative is never finished.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

We must also remember that our work is not done.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

And I knew then, as I know now, that I still have so much to do.