Fine Quotes

• The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Weather, Two, Foxes

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Rees (2010). “Travels to the Source of the Missouri River: And Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 1804, 1805, and 1806”, p.213, Cambridge University Press

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• It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

  Henry Mayhew

  Heart, Fire, Coal

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• If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

  Guy Forget

  Winning, Years, Trying

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• The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Feminist, Suits, Bedtime

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• Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

  Mary Blakely

  Art, Anger, Turns

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• Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

  John Dos Passos

  Boss, Ems, Hell

  John Dos Passos (2013). “The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

  Justin Guarini

  Lines, Assertive, Relaxed

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• Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

  Frank Muir

  Wine, Bottles, Tactics

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• Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

  Todd Gitlin

  Strong, America, May

  "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.

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• I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

  Seth Green

  Stars, Guy, Acting

  "EXCLUSIVE: Seth Green, Matthew Lillard and Dax Shepard talk Without a Paddle!" by Brian B., movieweb.com. August 10, 2004.

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• It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

  Deborah Bull

  Strong, Feet, Dancing

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• I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

  Daniel Clowes

  Giving, Vision, Lines

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• John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

  Tab Hunter

  Real, Stuff, Wayne

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• My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Teacher, Art, Thinking

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• One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

  Trevor Nunn

  Play, Complexes, Fine Day

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• If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

  S. Robson Walton

  Football, Games, Comic

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• When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Talking, Acting, Actors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

  Francis Bacon

  Lunch Break, Cooking Dinner, Breakfast

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• Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Reality, Cost, Idealism And Realism

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• I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

  Roger Ebert

  Kind, Glad

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

  Voltaire

  Inspiring, Today, Illusion

  "Voltaire: Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne". Book by Voltaire (translated), 1756.

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• Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

  Wyatt Earp

  Morning, Live Life, Quality

  "Playing loose and fast with the truth" by Stephen Pritchard, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

  Harper Lee

  Aunt, Land, People

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• i'm okay.. is that what you really want me to say?

  Vanilla Ice

  Rapper, Love At First Sight, Hip Hop

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• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Positive, Witty

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.

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