Fine Quotes · Page 175

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

— Catherine Deneuve

We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement…

— Stephen Colbert

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do,…

— Carrie P. Meek

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

— Jock Sturges

I ought to break your neck!" Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on…

— Judith McNaught

I certainly went into losing my virginity terrified. Going on stage, I could only have imagined the worst possible outcomes. And then…

— John Krasinski

But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was…

— John Heilpern

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he…

— Roy Wilkins

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.

— Finley Peter Dunne

Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

— Jason Mraz

If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.

— Jazz Jennings

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Work hard, take care of yourself, and you'll be just fine.

— Richard Simmons

Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.

— Florence King

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

— George Eliot

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

— Yasmina Khadra

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but…

— William Faulkner

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up…

— Dolly Parton

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

— Lynn Kurland

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine…

— Gertrude Bell

If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has…

— Paul Goodman

Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it.…

— Jacques Villeneuve