Finest Quotes

491 Finest quotes by 393 unique authors

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to… — Daniel Hannan
My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could… — Tom T. Hall
Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she… — John Desmond Bernal
I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time. — Stevie Ray Vaughan
New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will be a lively… — Goh Chok Tong
I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country. — Tom Hicks
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world,… — Ray LaHood
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to… — Lajos Kossuth
Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand… — James Whistler
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of… — Samuel Johnson
Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment. — Peter Paul Rubens
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model… — Giorgio Vasari
There is the finest line between data and evidence. — Randall Dale Adams
Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest. — Wayne Thiebaud
Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The… — Norman Vincent Peale
The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all — Napoleon Bonaparte
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. — John Muir
Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper. — Emily Dickinson
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate,… — Bayard Taylor
Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is… — Will Rogers
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is… — William Walsh

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