Fine Quotes

• I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Misunderstood, Facts, Enjoy

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• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

  Francis Bacon

  Lunch Break, Cooking Dinner, Breakfast

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• Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Hands, Strings, Attacking

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• My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

  John Bonham

  Ukulele, Nerves, Gigs

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• Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Reality, Cost, Idealism And Realism

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• After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

  George Clooney

  Kids, Vasectomy, Pediatrician

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• Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Writing, Editing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

  Joseph Conrad

  Flower, Garden, Expression

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1153, e-artnow

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• My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

  Catherine Crier

  Dog, Children, Weather

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• I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

  Roger Ebert

  Kind, Glad

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

  William Hazlitt

  World, Speculation, Subjects

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.108

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• The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Hope, Failure

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

  Henry James

  Appreciate, Intellectual, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Art, Way, Humans

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  Malcolm X

  Work, Long, Violence

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• I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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

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• You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Law, Drug

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• The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

  Morley Safer

  Travel, Views, World

  Morley Safer (1990). “Flashbacks: on returning to Vietnam”, Random House Inc

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• To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

  Paul Valery

  Writing, Numbers, Unexpected

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• The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

  Bill Vaughan

  Whales, Ants

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• Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

  Voltaire

  Inspiring, Today, Illusion

  "Voltaire: Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne". Book by Voltaire (translated), 1756.

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• Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

  Dar Williams

  Forgiveness, Night, Needs

  Song: My Friends

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• Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Worry, Helping

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.1967, e-artnow

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