Fine Quotes - Page 18

• There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

  Walter Scott

  Southern, Fine Words, Parsnips

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: The bride of Lammermoor. A legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe”, p.229

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• There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Absurd, Spun

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• Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

  Jenny Offill

  Self, Years, Birth

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.79, Vintage

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• I don't need protecting. I am not the girl you save. I am fine.

  Olivia

  Girl, Needs

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• Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

  Jason Mraz

  Names, Way, Knows

  Song: Details In The Fabric, Album: We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things, 2008

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• I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being.

  Steven Jackson

  Art, Children, Hamilton

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• That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Swings, Years

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• And I want you to notice that one of them, one of the men almost has his tongue hanging out like he's licking his chops. Like this baby is ours now. And that's fine. You may call that love. But it looks to me a little bit like lust. And when they crave to bring the children of heterosexual couples through adoption into their homes, so that they can raise them in the homosexual lifestyle. And studies now show, that up to 20% kids raised by gay couples become gay themselves. It is a recruiting tool. And it is a child abuse tool.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Baby, Children, Couple

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• It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

  George Eliot

  World, Demand, Temper

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2858, Delphi Classics

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• Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

  Manuel Puig

  Growing Up, Years, Saws

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• I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

  Jason Wiles

  Book, Character, Cities

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• We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

  Alan Shearer

  Sports, Confidence, Games

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• We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

  Gene Ween

  Money, Records, Certain

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• Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

  Gene Ween

  Money, Way, Increase

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

  Andrew Wiles

  Work, Long, Interesting

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Too Much, Brilliant

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• Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pride, Sound, Abjection

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2541, Delphi Classics

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• We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

  John L. Phillips

  Jobs, Pigs, Space

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• Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I think four or five cups a day is, you're fine.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Thinking, Four

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• It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

  James A. Michener

  Work, Thinking, Years

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• Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and steep fines on large corporations-who have even larger lawyers-is rare.

  Charlotte Laws

  Animal, Law, Use

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• It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

  William Butler Yeats

  Crazy, Women, Meat

  "A Prayer for my Daughter" l. 30 (1919)

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• It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Needs, Adam

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

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• Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

  Nicholas Haslam

  Upper Class, Piano, House

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• Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Cities, Venice, Would Be

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