Fine Quotes

3701 Fine quotes by 2431 unique authors

There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to… — Steven Saylor
One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My… — Mary Lou Williams
Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge estates look in… — Orison Swett Marden
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend… — Joachim du Bellay
If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before… — Benoite Groult
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means… — Angela Carter
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish. — Marianne Moore
These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check… — Robertson Davies
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little… — Immanuel Kant
But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases… — Warren Buffett
"Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want… — Rajneesh
Play him, fine him, and play him again. — Gene Mauch
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? — William James
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities… — Isabella Beeton
At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst absent on special… — Unknown Author
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my… — William Blake
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. — Alfred North Whitehead
A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one… — John Vianney
...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His… — Abdul Kalam
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance,… — Oscar Wilde
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition -… — Edgar Allan Poe
More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered states of consciousness.… — Douglas Rushkoff

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