Fine Quotes

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

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.

People have said to me, 'Why don't you change your name?' And I've said, 'Fine, come up with a better name and we'll change it.' But no one has done that.

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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.

Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

The best long range shotgun load to have in one's boat for mallards is a fine retriever.

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

Sweet cherry wine, so very fine, take it on down, pass it all around.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.

She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

If you have some problem in your life and you need to deal with it then use religion it's fine. I use Google.

My mother never let on that anything was wrong. She kept her chin up and acted as if everything were just fine. So we did too.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

So if we cover [Donald Trump] the same way, let's say "The Kelly File," we cover him the same way we cover Barack Obama, the same amount, the same skeptical eye, he's going to be fine with that.

I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

There's a fine line between being a sicko and an adventurous spirit.

I know he (Albert Belle) hates me. If he needs that hate to succeed, it's fine by me. I always liked him. He was a good kid. He just had a hard time with the pressure.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.