Fine Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

  Kenny Rogers

  Boys, Bored, House

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• I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Class, Tragedy

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• Zero G and I feel fine.

  John Glenn

  Zero, Moon, Feels

  John Glenn, Nick Taylor (1999). “John Glenn: A Memoir”, p.306, Bantam

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• Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Children, Medicine, People

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• You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, People, Choices

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• How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

  Jean-Martin Charcot

  Morning, Disease

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• Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing fine. And eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. We are now facing a possible dark age which is going to be world-wide and permanent! That's not fun. That's a different thing. But once we have established many worlds, we can do whatever we want as long as we do it one world at a time.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fun, Dark, Moon

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• Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.

  Sam Cooke

  Friendship, Cat, Names

  Song: Another Saturday Night, Album: Ain't That Good News, 2003

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• Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

  Willard Gaylin

  Blessed, Animal, Safety

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

  Bernard Levin

  Weather, Childhood, Remember

  Bernard Levin (1984). “Enthusiasms”, Random House Value Publishing

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• And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.

  Nolan Ryan

  Jobs, Children, Blessed

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• I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

  Vash Young

  Real, Golf, Long Walks

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• I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.

  Rutger Hauer

  Thinking, Hands, Hysteria

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• The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the thing is if you're not scared or get over it you learn that sometimes what you're scared of is really what you shouldn't be scared of.

  Rutger Hauer

  Funny Things, People, Want

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• I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

  James Spader

  Art, Symphony, Museums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

  Tori Spelling

  Children, Kids, Long

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• I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

  Darius Rucker

  Strong Women, Home, Wife

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

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• I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

  Gary Sinise

  Games, Levels, Actors

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• Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.

  Julian Baggini

  Believe, Games, Use

  "The modern believer is not suspicious enough" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

  Paget Brewster

  House, Trying, Break

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• There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

  Rob Brydon

  People, Charmed Life, Know Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

  Shane Black

  Men, Vanity, Mind

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2005.

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• That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.

  Debbie Harry

  Art, Real, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess my feeling is that if you’re going to make a joke, that’s fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you’re trying to make.

  Adam Carolla

  Feelings, Trying, Should

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