Fine Quotes - page 7

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me. (Roger Ebert)
You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. View quote
André Maurois
Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it -- although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
... And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. View quote
Pete Seeger
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. View quote
Pete Seeger
Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed. View quote
Richard Bach
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa-Who knows most, knows least. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is their life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls - who have politeness, sense and conversation - but these are few - and then look at your trademen's daughters - what are they? poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly. View quote
Frances Burney
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. (Paolo Bacigalupi)
I say to the grownups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.' View quote
Bill Nye
What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you. View quote
Bill Bryson
Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding. View quote
John Paul Jones
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. View quote
Ralph Bakshi
I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that 's all perfume. View quote
William Cowper
New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. View quote
Neil Kinnock
Fine words dresse ill deedes. View quote
George Herbert
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life. (Anthony Trollope)
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who, early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it-whole-heartedly-and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. View quote
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right. View quote
John Buchan
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax