Fine Quotes

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

Your dream was given to you. If someone else can't see it for you, that's fine, it was given to you and not them. It's your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

I think it's OK to talk about your military service, but there's a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

I'm fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say 'Fine - how was your lobotomy?'

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Beloveds, you are fine, just the way you are! Perfect in your imperfection! You are divine! Growing brighter and more brilliant each day, you can accept the truth of who you are.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.