Fine Quotes - Page 18

• Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Football, Ambition, Thinking

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• The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adventure, Understanding, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.208

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• [VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.

  David Hare

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• . . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . .

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Spiritual, Ideas

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• Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

  Sarah Hall

  Soul, Noses, Faults

  Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.84, Faber & Faber

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

  Nash Buckingham

  Dog, Long, Boat

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• You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Animal, Should

  Charles Dickens (1837). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.9

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• What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools.

  James Joyce

  Fall, Light, Air

  James Joyce (1996). “James Joyce: The Poems in Verse and Prose”, Trafalgar Square

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• ... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.

  Sara Gruen

  Children, Glasses, Hair

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• Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

  Steve Albini

  Cooking, Technique, Meals

  "Indie Rock Food Blogs: The Steve Albini Interview". Interview with Andrew Simmons, www.laweekly.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Art, Inspiration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Writing, Track, Lasts

  Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell (Translator) (2013). “The Golem”, p.85, SCB Distributors

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• I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

  Socrates

  Inspiration, Understanding, Talent

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• Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Hate, Love Is, Better Person

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Best Served Cold: A First Law Novel”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

  Jane Austen

  Two, Ivory, Littles

  Letter to J. Edward Austen, 16 Dec. 1816

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• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, School, Degrees

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• Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

  Neil Peart

  People, Different, Matter

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• I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

  Agatha Christie

  Mother, Walking Away, Ice

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• You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

  Gillian Flynn

  Home, Thinking, Long

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.42, Broadway Books

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• And, because my role in society - or any artist or poet's role - is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not to...they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. … If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that - they're reflections of society... Mirrors.

  John Lennon

  Jobs, Taken, Artist

  KFRC RKO Radio Interview, December 8, 1980.

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• Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of self-disillusion the via dolorosa or "highway of despair," in Baillie's fine and florid rendering, like Jesus' route to Golgotha).

  Kenny Smith

  Jesus, Art, Philosophy

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• A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

  Eugene Mirman

  Medicine, Bullshit, Comedian

  Eugene Mirman (2009). “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Moon, Toes

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• But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Nice, Successful, Odds

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• A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

  Marie Corelli

  Morning, Hunting, Bird

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