Fine Quotes - Page 16

• Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.

  Burnie Burns

  Caring, Thinking, Everyday

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• At home, a T-shirt and something loose like harem pants would do. If I'm stepping out, a pair of blue jeans and a white tee are just fine.

  Genelia D'Souza

  Home, Blue, Jeans

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• Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

  Allen Lacy

  Garden, Practice, Evil

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• Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Children, Hate, People

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• With every script, I write a note to my collaborator that says: 'I write full script. But see it as a guide. You take us where we need to go any way you see fit. I tried to write something specifically for you. If you agree with my choices, fine. If not, you do what you have to do.'

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Writing, Choices, Needs

  Brian Michael Bendis (2014). “Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels”, p.61, Watson-Guptill

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• There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

  Walter Scott

  Southern, Fine Words, Parsnips

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: The bride of Lammermoor. A legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe”, p.229

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• There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Absurd, Spun

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• If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Jobs, Home

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.

  Steven Weinberg

  People, Religion, Important

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• Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

  Jenny Offill

  Self, Years, Birth

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.79, Vintage

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• I don't need protecting. I am not the girl you save. I am fine.

  Olivia

  Girl, Needs

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• Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don't worry about it. Give yourself a break. You're probably a really fine person.

  Natalie

  Years, Giving, Worry

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• Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

  Jason Mraz

  Names, Way, Knows

  Song: Details In The Fabric, Album: We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things, 2008

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• I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being.

  Steven Jackson

  Art, Children, Hamilton

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• I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Asking Questions, Interesting, Perfect

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• History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?

  Henry Bromell

  Change, Powerful, Next Day

  "Fictional character: Chris Stevens". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Body in Question", 1991), 1990-1995.

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• You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man.

  Ray Combs

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Swings, Years

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• And I want you to notice that one of them, one of the men almost has his tongue hanging out like he's licking his chops. Like this baby is ours now. And that's fine. You may call that love. But it looks to me a little bit like lust. And when they crave to bring the children of heterosexual couples through adoption into their homes, so that they can raise them in the homosexual lifestyle. And studies now show, that up to 20% kids raised by gay couples become gay themselves. It is a recruiting tool. And it is a child abuse tool.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Baby, Children, Couple

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• It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

  George Eliot

  World, Demand, Temper

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2858, Delphi Classics

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• Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

  Manuel Puig

  Growing Up, Years, Saws

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• I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Change, Names, Strange

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• I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

  Jason Wiles

  Book, Character, Cities

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• We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

  Alan Shearer

  Sports, Confidence, Games

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• I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

  Angus Wilson

  Morning, Air, Breathing

  Angus Wilson (2015). “The Old Men at the Zoo”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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