Fine Quotes - Page 37

• A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still-- But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Heart, Wine, Curves

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

  Alexander Pope

  Husband, Women, Dragons

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “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”, p.314

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa— Who knows most, knows least.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Horse, Italian

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1961). “Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien”

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• Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.

  John L. Lewis

  Children, Race, Israel

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

  Blake Lively

  Heaven, Needs, Lines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is nothing like a fine Italian sound.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Italian, Sound

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There is this cliche of, "Oh, your professional life is fine, but your romantic life isn't." But, that's also really true of me and all my friends. You don't want to not do something that's relatable simply because you're worried that it might be cliche.

  Mindy Kaling

  Want, Might, Life Is

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you.

  John French Sloan

  Color, Giving, Form

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• There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

  John French Sloan

  Drawing, Texture, Chance

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• Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.

  James Elkins

  Art, Hands, Color

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge

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• I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.

  Amor Towles

  Blue, Missing, Finishing

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.97, Stanford University Press

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• Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Precious Stones, World

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• When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Giving, Soul

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• There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

  Cesare Pavese

  Children, Looks

  Diary entry for September 06, 1945. "This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950". Book by Cesare Pavese, 2009.

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• No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Hope, Strong, Distance

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.573, Delphi Classics

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• I always tell new people in show business. I say, "Look, show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you're gonna get screwed. And when you get screwed, you will have this pile of money off to the side already." And they go, "OK, OK. OK, you ready? You ready?" "I got screwed." "You got the pile of money?" "Yeah, I'm fine." I mean, that's the way it works.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, People, Looks

  "Jay Leno on leaving 'The Tonight Show'". Interview with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2014.

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• A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

  George Herbert

  Law, Rooms, Action

  'The Elixir', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.

  George Washington

  Spring, Order, Useless

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1779). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.301

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• If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Teacher, Children, Memories

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, translated by E. Lee, pp. 185-186, 1903.

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• Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Archer, Sky, Rivers

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• I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Adorable, Addresses, Way

  "Sydsvenska Dagbladet", Swedish daily newspaper, May 2002.

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• Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor probably because when they looked in his face they were ready to give him their power of attorney.

  Pauline Kael

  Stars, Believe, People

  Pauline Kael (1991). “Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991”, E P Dutton

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• Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Roosters

  'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' (1880) 'Plantation Proverbs'

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• Thank God it has rained all day. I say thank God, though rain is no rarity, because it is the duty of every man to be thankful for whatever happens by the will of the Omnipotent Creator; yet it was not so agreeable to any of my party as a fine day would have been.

  John James Audubon

  Party, Rain, Men

  Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.259, Cosimo, Inc.

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