Finely Quotes

84 Finely quotes by 73 unique authors

There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way.… — Hunter S. Thompson
Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult… — Barry Commoner
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well… — Havelock Ellis
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a… — Matthew Arnold
It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and… — Alan Woods
What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now,… — Rick Hilles
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull… — John Keats
The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms,… — Brian Greene
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as… — Charles Dickens
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. — Reggie Jackson
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,… — George Eliot
Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched… — Judith McNaught
..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as… — Michael Eric Dyson
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from… — Albert Einstein
Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need… — Terry Pratchett
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see… — Janet Fitch
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying… — Patrick O'Brian
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.… — Oscar Wilde
RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply… — Mark Morford
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has not ever needed… — Neil Gaiman
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we… — Oscar Wilde
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly… — Charles Darwin
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss

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