Fine Quotes

• It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Excess, Worth Living

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cloning, Made, Should

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• If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

  Guy Forget

  Winning, Years, Trying

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• The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Feminist, Suits, Bedtime

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• Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

  Mary Blakely

  Art, Anger, Turns

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• Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

  John Dos Passos

  Boss, Ems, Hell

  John Dos Passos (2013). “The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

  Justin Guarini

  Lines, Assertive, Relaxed

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• Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

  Frank Muir

  Wine, Bottles, Tactics

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• Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

  Todd Gitlin

  Strong, America, May

  "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.

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• I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

  Seth Green

  Stars, Guy, Acting

  "EXCLUSIVE: Seth Green, Matthew Lillard and Dax Shepard talk Without a Paddle!" by Brian B., movieweb.com. August 10, 2004.

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• It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

  Deborah Bull

  Strong, Feet, Dancing

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• I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

  Daniel Clowes

  Giving, Vision, Lines

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• John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

  Tab Hunter

  Real, Stuff, Wayne

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• My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Teacher, Art, Thinking

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• One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

  Trevor Nunn

  Play, Complexes, Fine Day

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• If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

  S. Robson Walton

  Football, Games, Comic

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• Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Golf, Worry

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

  Pete Seeger

  Inspirational, Education, Humor

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• The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Death, Hate

  For Whom the Bell Tolls ch. 43 (1940)

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• Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

  Andy Rooney

  News, Literature, Print

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• I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Funny, Wall, Flower

  Speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California. "The Event Makers I've Known". Book by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161, 2012.

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• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) act 1

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