Finest Quotes - Page 20

• My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Albums, Way

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• Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Science, Would Be, Research

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• I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Baby, Wine, Sticks

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• To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Moving, Messages, Hollywood

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• In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Order, Smell, Hollywood

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

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• I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

  Beatrice Wood

  Life, Pieces, Sells

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• I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Christmas, Memories, Holiday

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• I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Promise, Quality, Friends Forever

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.50, Conari Press

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• In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

  Ann Macbeth

  Thinking, Rocks, Australia

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• New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will be a lively and exciting place.. Our city will not only have depth, but also the richness of diversity. But above all, Singapore will a home for Singaporeans.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Change, Sports, Art

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• I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

  Tom Hicks

  Country, Thinking, Texas

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• Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Roots, Humanity, Fruit

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• The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Wise, Men, Ideas

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• Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.

  Ray LaHood

  Iceland, Spain, World

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Struggle, Night

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• Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.

  Daniel Defoe

  Cities, Together, Four

  1724-7 Of Glasgow. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, letter 12.

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• Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

  Romain Rolland

  Dream, People, Theatre

  "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.

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• Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

  David Farland

  Powerful, Real, Unique

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• Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Envelopes, Genius

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• Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hope, Spring, Action

  Maria Edgeworth (1894). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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• To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.

  Edna Ferber

  Unique, Magic, Once In A Lifetime

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography”, p.5, Vintage

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• The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice... Our finest moments have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

  George W. Bush

  Land, Justice, People

  George W. Bush's speech at 53rd Anniversary of National Day of Prayer, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 6, 2004.

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• Finest fur may cover toughest meat.

  Chief Joseph

  Meat, Fur, May

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• Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Christian, Heart, Heaven

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