T Quotes
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“The financing of my films has always been international.”
“The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.”
“The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading”
Source: History of Western Philosophy
“The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.”
“The finding that ME and CFS group had more functional limitations and more serious symptoms than those with MS [multiple sclerosis] provides additional evidence to the seriousness of ME and CFS.”
“The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.”
“The fine and varied literature that I read was almost all in translation: from classic works by Jack London, Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens, to detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Georges Simenon, not to mention fascinating pornographic books. I also appreciated the biblical stories that contained all three genres.”
Source: La fin de l'intellectuel français ?
“The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decision that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make.”
“The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.”
“The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.”
“The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.”
“The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.”
Source: Works
“The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.”
“The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.”
“The fine details in his face struck me like a knife to the chest - all the things I didn't realize I'd forgotten, like the slight crookedness to his nose or the way he favored the left side over the right. The version of him in my mind was generic, sanded down me months of absence, even as my grief clung to him.”
Source: The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
“The fine emotions whence our lives we mold
Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.”
“The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.”
“The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!”
“The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.”
“The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.”
“The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.”
“The fine-structure constant derives its name from its origin. It first appeared in Sommerfeld's work to explain the fine details of the hydrogen spectrum. ... Since Sommerfeld expressed the energy states of the hydrogen atom in terms of the constant [alpha], it came to be called the fine-structure constant.”
Source: Hydrogen: The Essential Element
“The fine structure constant is the pulse of certainty, will and dominion. These entities are vortices: nature's most basic sensuality; because vortices are consubstantial with their matrix ... the surround.”
Source: The Fine Structure Constant
“The fine-structure constant is ubiquitous throughout physics. I’ve already noted its connection to the electromagnetic interaction. In atomic physics, the binding energy, fine-structure splitting, and Lamb shift are all proportional to powers of α. In condensed matter physics, α characterizes Josephson junction oscillations and quantum Hall resistance steps. In addition, α is an important component of our system of fundamental constants. [Physics Today]”
“The fine structure constant is undoubtedly the most fundamental pure (dimensionless) number in all of physics. It relates the basic constants of electromagnetism (the charge of the electron), relativity (the speed of light), and quantum mechanics (Planck's constant).”
“The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?”
Source: Postscript to The name of the rose
“The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.”
Source: Masks of the universe
“The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.”
“The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
If when the soul unto the lines accords.”
“The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.”
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
“The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.”
Source: Table-talk
“The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!”
“The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.”
Source: The Powers of The Mind
“The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.”
Source: On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...
“The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.”
“The finest achievement is Humility.
The greatest religion is Humanity.”
“the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.”
Source: Vengeance
“The finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.”
“The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.”
“The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.”
“The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.”
“The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.”
“The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.”
Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
“The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.”
“The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.”
“The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.”
“The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came.”
“The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.”
Source: Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber