Fine Quotes

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

I bet you there's a lot of guys who dream of having a girl that fine.

I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

I’m all mixed up inside. It’s like—I don’t know—like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I’m fine, and the next I’m losing it.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine.

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

I’ve met kids who haven’t had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine.

I don't get it when girls say 'I'm fine' but don't mean it.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money.

People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.

To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.

I go to pick up a girl in a bar. I say will you go home with me? She says I don't know, do you have cable? I say no, but the rope should work just fine.

Play him, fine him, and play him again.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

Every thing new is fine.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.

One is oneself a fine consequence.

I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.

Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.

Love is durable. It's like Teflon. ...Trust is like fine china. Secrets destroy trust.

If in winning we only draw we would be fine.

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.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.

All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Not everybody has that mentality and that's fine, but once Robert Redford leaves this earth - later rather than sooner - his legacy will go on.

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.