Fine Quotes - Page 35

• I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).

  Anne Lamott

  Bullying, Liars, Majority Leader

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• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Art, Self

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 56, 1948.

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• Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

  Henry Vaughan

  Views, Soil, Young

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.223

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• The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.

  John Constable

  Art, Names, First Impression

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.599, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Everyday, Enemy, Speech

  Anthony Trollope (1861). “Framley parsonage”, p.129

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• I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.

  Anita Brookner

  Lonely, Passion, Animal

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• I know many fine feathered friends But their friendliness depends on how you do They know many sure fired ways, To find out the one who pays And how you do

  Cat Stevens

  Pay, Way, Knows

  Song: Hard-Headed Woman

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• Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

  Arthur Symons

  Flower, Perfect, Literature

  Arthur Symons (1958). “The symbolist movement in literature”

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• Well, I'm a standing on a cornerIn Winslow, ArizonaAnd such a fine sight to see,It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed FordSlowin' down to have a look at me.

  Jackson Browne

  Girl, Sight, Looks

  "Song: Take It Easy (Album: Eagles)". 1972.

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• Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

  Adam Sandler

  Together, Florence, Half

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• I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas. Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.

  M. Ward

  Ideas, Records, Weight

  "'Time' Is Right for Songwriter Ward" by Jill Menze, www.reuters.com. January 10, 2009.

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• 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.

  Fanny Burney

  Girl, Daughter, Husband

  "The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney". Vol. 1, p. 47, journal entry, November 17, 1768.

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• And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I'm stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

  Harry Chapin

  Real, Play, Symphony

  Song: Six String Orchestra, 1974

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• I understand... the pressure is definitely hard, but I think just keeping your head on your shoulders is easier than it looks. I think if you know who you are, then I think you'll be fine for the rest of the way.

  Miley Cyrus

  Thinking, Looks, Way

  OK! Magazine, January 18, 2008.

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• Coming here, I sharpened and fine-tuned everything I had and needed. What I thought of as myself as a performer, I looked back and was like, ‘Wow, I improved from where I was.’ I thought I was ready and then saw the improvements I made which were unbelievable. It makes the transition from down here to up there (the WWE roster) so much easier because you’re prepared for what they need you to do. It’s not like you’re jumping into a whole other world. You’re prepared for what they need.

  Bo Dallas

  Other Worlds, Wwe, Jumping

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• It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.

  David Gemmell

  War, Games, Battle

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 28, 1984.

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• As an actor, you want to remain vulnerable. You don't want to always have all the answers and you want to be fine doing things in the moment with your fellow actors.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Actors, Answers, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Novelists, Casting, Location

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Mayors are very different, because mayors can't be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just go with your gut and say what you believe, and you'll be fine. If you're not fine, at least you'll like what you see in the mirror.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Believe, Mirrors, Issues

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

  Stephen Crane

  Struggle, Littles, Tiny

  Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Christian, People, Soul

  Interview with Matt Ryan, Magnet Magazine, 2005.

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• Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.

  Frank Loesser

  Beautiful, Oysters, Long

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• I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.

  Frank Loesser

  Morning, Stairs, Breeze

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.

  Frank Miller

  Art, Communication, Comic

  "Eisner/Miller". Book by Frank Miller and Will Eisner, 2005.

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• The first time I punched in my name and saw how many sites there were, I thought, that's scary. I got too involved where I got worried and panicked and tried to stop it. But you know what, if I just let it go and not worry about it, then it will be fine. Because it's all about how it makes me feel and I was letting it get to me.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Names, Worry, Scary

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