Fine Quotes - Page 10

• Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.

  Curnonsky

  Honor, Meals, Sauce

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• When he arrived, Keith (Olbermann) had one thing in mind: it was Keith. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that.

  Bob Ley

  Mind, Keith, One Thing

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• It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

  Saul Perlmutter

  Morning, Interesting, Wake Up

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• Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Mean, Choices

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• There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Thinking, Weakness, Done

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• 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.

  Avi Rubin

  Giving, Wrong Answers, Machines

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• Even without love, I can live fine alone. It's not like I've always had what I wanted. In my life not even once... I was never selfish nor full of greed. The things I want to do, the things I want, the things I wish for... have I ever even had any of those, for at least once in my whole life? I can live fine without love. I will find a way to survive. Dying is hell. Why is living supposed to be hell?

  Ma-Roo

  Selfish, Innocent Man, Greed

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• God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful days of spring. What is God must be one of those smells that beguile and inebriate the mind, who like a fine drunken horse of water the heart now rides, galloping wild in every direction like a river flooding right through the topsoil of your youth, cutting and eroding a groove that will be your life, a canyon sunk deep into the virgin plains and unsawn forests of your early days.

  Martin Prechtel

  Horse, Spring, Heart

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• Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

  Mu Xin

  Intelligent, Library, Firsts

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• For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

  Brian Koppelman

  Artist, Lines, Belief

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• We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of the highest order. We want a miracle. Out of millions we have to find the one who will understand. For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date, we dream of going home to watch television. We would prfer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit...but when the quirkyalone collides with another, ooh la la. The earth quakes.

  Sasha Cagen

  Dream, Mean, Home

  "Original Essay" by Sasha Cagen, quirkyalone.net. July 2000.

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• It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.

  Tim Tharp

  Tomorrow, Live In The Now, Best Things

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• Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

  Paul Bley

  Writing, Play, Piano

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• Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and
  ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing,
  great things are possible to you.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Ambition, Soul, Longing

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• Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

  Jane Porter

  Virtue, Nobility, Settings

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.5

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• If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.

  Arianna Huffington

  Believe, Thinking, Essence

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• Whatever God wants is fine by me. . . . I've had the very best life. I have tasted beauty

  Scatman John

  Want

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

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• Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

  Joan Collins

  Kissing, Men, Smoking

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

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Love Is, Fine China, Secret

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• We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

  Neil Cavuto

  Smile, Teaching, Kids

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• All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.

  Stacy London

  Gold, Looks, Purpose

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• Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Mouths, Certain, Enjoy

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic series by Jhonen Vasquez, August 1995 – January 1997.

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• Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.

  Annie Proulx

  Rain, Hair, Rocks

  Annie Proulx (2011). “Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn't go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn't exist.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Heart, Focus, Pieces

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

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• I can pass a drug test in eight days with herbal cleansers. I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day. I'll be fine.

  Nick Diaz

  Eight, Sweat, Water

  "MMA fighter Nick Diaz says smoking marijuana is part of his plan" by Lance Pugmire, articles.latimes.com. April 9, 2009.

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