Finest Quotes - Page 21

• Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Political, Politics

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.43, Vintage

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  Henry James

  Kindness, Air, Imperfection

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

  James Lafferty

  Art, Glasses, Common

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• He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

  Arthur Miller

  Failure, Character, Attention

  Death of a Salesman (1949) act 1

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• I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

  Rachel Nichols

  Mean, Literature, Classic

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• But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.

  Thomas Keneally

  Nice, Reading, Past

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• What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

  Rene Char

  Seductive, Eternal

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• The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Flower, Mean, Effort

  Elbert Hubbard (1928). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...”

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• Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

  Evel Knievel

  World, Harley, Company

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

  William Cowper

  Healing, Men, Feelings

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.136

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• You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jet Engines, Hands

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• Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

  Julia Child

  Knives, Ideas, Fearless

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• Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

  Annie Proulx

  Teacher, Reading, Writing

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• Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

  Morey Amsterdam

  Men, Body, Congress

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• He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.

  Ty Cobb

  Games, Natural

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• A dog has kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor. The finest qualities anyone can have.

  Kay Francis

  Dog, Heart, Quality

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

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• A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his search for light both metaphorical and real. Writing with a controlled lyrical passion, Marly Youmans has crafted the finest, and the truest period novel I've read in years.

  Lucius Shepard

  Real, Passion, Writing

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• The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Bread, Has Beens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, we’re in a world that’s so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Opportunity, People, Age

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• Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hurt, Truth, Blood

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.238

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• Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties”.- Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer
  “Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  New Year, Lying, Years

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• America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

  Christopher Bond

  Jobs, America, Battle

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• They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

  Robert Mueller

  Country, Opportunity, Fbi Agents

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• An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.

  Tori Amos

  Milk, Tequila, Breasts

  "Tori Amos Gives Birth To Daughter" by Sorelle Saidman, www.mtv.com. September 07, 2000.

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• Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Latin, Flower

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