The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of… — Stacy Keach Copy Share Image
Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura . — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre. — April Bloomfield Copy Share Image
I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail! — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you… — Juan Manuel Fangio Copy Share Image
The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have… — Karl Malone Copy Share Image
Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midway between San Francisco and… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
So actually what that was able to do was twofold. For me, it helps illustrate what DTS is capable of doing right… — Klay Hall Copy Share Image
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The Russians are a little stronger, but they excel at the basics. Lock the hands, bear hugs, takedowns, riding are all strong… — Gilbert Melendez Copy Share Image
In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
[My boys] they're all different. Jackie was very competitive. He was a tough kid - a little bit like Nick. Steve was… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
“The problem I was going to have is that the way murderbots fight is we throw ourselves at the target and try… — Martha Wells Copy Share Image
Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have… — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image
The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of… — Martina Hingis Copy Share Image
The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Finesse is catching the baseball on the edge of your glove when you're turning two, making the one-handed grabs and shoestring tackles… — Tony Ferguson Copy Share Image
Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much… — Graeme Le Saux Copy Share Image
What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire… — John Cena Copy Share Image
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
![“The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.” quote by Al Kooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ad/al-kooper-27961_broadway_the-first-generation-from-the-50s-that-w_2013633.jpg)
![“[My boys] they're all different. Jackie was very competitive. He was a tough kid - a little bit like Nick. Steve was sort of a finesse guy. He was a little bit like Nick - if he could touch it, he'd catch it. He played wide receiver at Florida State. Then, Gary came along and Gary was more my size.” quote by Jack Nicklaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc3/jack-nicklaus-1429_bits_my-boys-they-re-all-different-jackie-was_1928814.png)
![“I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.” quote by Tracy Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a4/tracy-morgan-1210_barack_i-give-barack-obama-a-10-on-a-scale-of-1_822564.jpg)
