Finest Quotes - Page 11

• It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.

  Steven Pressfield

  Succeed, Culture, Pay

  "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2002.

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• Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Baseball, Memories

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

  Denis Hayes

  Warning, World, Scientist

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• Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, World, Creatures

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.69, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

  Lee Wulff

  Kindness, Fishing, Giving

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Genius, Modesty, Little Women

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.

  Billy Graham

  Wisdom, Couple, Two

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• The death of Walt Disney is a loss to all the people of the world. In everything he did, Walt had an intuitive way of reaching out and touching the hearts and mind of young and old alike. His entertainment was an international language.
  For more than 40 years, people have looked to Walt Disney for the finest quality in family entertainment. There is no way to replace Walt Disney. He was an extraordinary man. Perhaps there will never be another like him… The world will always be a better place because Walt Disney was its master showman.

  Roy O. Disney

  Heart, Loss, Men

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• The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

  Humphry Davy

  Art, Paris, Saws

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• It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever!

  Arlene Hunt

  Car, Black, Needs

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• Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Conceit, Armour

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• There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Greatness, Special

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• I would describe our band "Paper Walls' growth as the natural evolution for anyone the age of 25 to 27, but with "Paper Walls' we focused on the best of what Yellowcard had to offer from our previous work. Meaning we took the energy we had from Ocean Avenue and blended that with that sharp rock edge and all the different sonic evolutions we have on "Lights and Sounds', and we basically mashed them together. So what we have on "Paper Walls' is basically the finest Yellowcard sounds we have to offer.

  Sean Mackin

  Ocean, Growth, Age

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• While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  Country, Needs, Guarding

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• If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

  Randy Alcorn

  Teacher, Children, Mistake

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.609, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marijuana, Medicine, Nausea

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• The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity.

  Philippe Starck

  Beautiful, Mean, Opposites

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• Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

  Adrian Belew

  Lonely, Luxury, Band

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• "Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.

  Michio Kaku

  Mother, Children, Simple

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.191, OUP Oxford

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• America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  New York, Blow, Cities

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• Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

  Rabbi Akiva

  Wisdom, Men, Hands

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• The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

  Samuel Johnson

  World, Landscape, Inns

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• It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.

  Karl Blind

  Beauty, Self, Expression

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• Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nature

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.64

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