and that braw lad,...is the finest piece of man flesh in…

A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript…

— Carolyn Forche

“I can't compete with a ghost or a perfect memory...I'm just a man...Flesh and blood. If you decide that's what you want, you know…

— Erica Spindler

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has…

— John Dos Passos

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

— Frank Herbert

As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought…

— Jules Verne

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.' My thoughts exactly.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

— Annie Proulx

I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

— Drake

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

— John Lyly

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade…

— Larry Atchley Jr

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest…

— Ron Rash

We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…

— Terence McKenna

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is…

— Walter Pater

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

— David Hilbert