Finely Quotes

84 Finely quotes by 73 unique authors

M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on… — Elizabeth Haydon
I’m so thrilled to manufacture in LA and to support the finely skilled craftsmen and women. Making it in America ensures that the fashion industry… — Nanette Lepore
The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written… — David Selbourne
We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort… — Malcolm Gladwell
The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we… — Berenice Abbott
Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned. — Gautama Buddha
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the… — Aristotle
The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be… — Hal Porter
When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born… — Neil Shubin
The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons… — Adrian Tchaikovsky
The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It… — Charles Francis Richter
In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It converts the perceptions… — Gregg Braden
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] — Gary Shteyngart
The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed an exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program… — Jeanne Achterberg
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.… — Athol Fugard
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced… — David Levering Lewis
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged… — Ellen Goodman
Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she… — William Shakespeare
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature… — James Loeb
The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which… — Philippe Perrin
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus… — Edward Weston
What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains… — Eoin Colfer
Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much… — Alan Bradley
...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind. — William Francis Henry King
A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It… — Del Howison

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