Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
...the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to… — Auguste Escoffier Copy Share Image
Petraeus is the finest general I have ever worked for; Holly Petraeus is a great American hero. — William H. McRaven Copy Share Image
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment. — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could… — Paolo Uccello Copy Share Image
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic. — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
