Fine Quotes - Page 20

• I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Feelings, Elements

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Morning, Years, Clothes

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• Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

  George Santayana

  Optimism, Feelings, Religion

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

  Alexander Pope

  Block, Vulgarity Is, Razors

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Common Sense, Half, Good Sense

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.377

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• The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Soul, Gold

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

  John Keats

  Taken, Men, Should Have

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 November 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 188

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• I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

  Ted Allen

  Jobs, Teaching, Wine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

  John Steinbeck

  Wall, Hate, Fighting

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, People, Kind

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• I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

  William Styron

  Writing, People, Finals

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

  Laurence Sterne

  Philosophy, Philosopher

  Laurence Sterne (1996). “Tristram Shandy”, p.248, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

  William Safire

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

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• I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

  Fred Couples

  Home, Age, Married

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• Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Office, Love And Friendship

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

  James Dickey

  Hunches, Bounds

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• I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Sweet, Art, Mistake

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Book, Car

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• People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

  Barry Lopez

  Confused, Book, Thinking

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

  Barbra Streisand

  Men, World, Being A Woman

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• Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.

  Martin Amis

  Thinking, Mirrors, Funny Things

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• Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, Women, Feminine

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Years, Tools

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• A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

  Louis Nizer

  Art, Renewal, Familiar

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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

  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

  Devil, Doe, Plot

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