The finest steel must go through the hottest fire.

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Annie Proulx

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

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

— David Hilbert

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

Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory?…

— Billy Graham

Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every…

— Ben Shapiro

The finest woman that ever walked the streets.

— Mae West

DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the…

— Doris Day

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to…

— Bonnie Friedman