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“But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.”

Men Heart Real Soul Spirit Behinds Grace Fine Haunting Loveliness Ineffable Something Real

Author:James Thurber

“Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.”

Whole Facts Beautiful Felt Broken Fine Colour Transition Subordinates Unified

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.”

Men Moments Law History Fine Impress Invisibility Tenacious Jurists

Author:Irving Kaufman

“It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.”

People Ifs Knows World Looks Mean Guy Struggle Fine Skills Normal Harder Handsome Rest Of Your Life Relatable That Guy Underdog Brad

Author:Jonah Hill

“To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!”

Men Fine Cheat

Author:John Gay

“He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.”

Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

“Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.”

Men Needs Said Fine

Book:Lanterns & Lances

Source: Lanterns & Lances

“There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.”

Stills Lines Fine Colorful Fine Lines

Book:Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick

Source: Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick

“Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.”

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.”

Quality Technology Fine Highest Soldier Substitutes

Book:Number9Dream: A Novel

Source: Number9Dream: A Novel

“There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel... Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating the divine authority of those books?”

Source: Ye Will Say I Am No Christian

“And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.”

Thinking Made Hands Lasts Food Fine Pure Gold Cooking China Coffee Secure Cups Burning Culinary Spoiled Arabia Berries Cinnamon Saffron Mocha Fine China

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Take care to chop the onion fine.”

Care Food Fine Cooking Take Care Culinary Onions

Book:Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies

Source: Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies

“Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.”

“It's a fine night to have an evening.”

Humor Funny Night Fine Evening

Author:Steven Wright

“Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on another. So I have to have fine line between teaching and writing. I try not to ever think of career. I just try to go to the dream world every day.”

Thinking World Writing Trying Wells Dream Lines Ability Compassion Careers Teaching Fine Draws Reserves Fine Lines Dream World

Author:Andre Dubus

“A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.”

Should Writing Different Turns Process Sides Creative Rocks Fine Diamond Phases Edits Tuning Different Sides Fine Tuning

Author:Kim Smith

“It's fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that's really all that matters when it's all said and done.”

Trying Said Matter Done Running Fine Rings Wheels Our Relationship Brass Said And Done Hamsters Hamster Wheel

Author:Katie Couric

“I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me.”

Believe Wells Doe I Can Helping Today Asks Self Help Fine Drink Drug Help Me God Exists

Author:Stephen King

“Sometimes you can't help but pay attention to what is written about you. You are trying not to because it's generally not constructive, it can be very funny, in which case it's fine to pay attention to it if you're going to laugh about it. But if it's going to get you angry then it's a pretty pointless waste of energy, so I try and be selective about what I take an interest in about myself.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Helping Energy Interest Pay Attention Cases Laughing Written Fine Waste Angry Pay Attention Constructive Pointless Selective

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!”

Knows Want Parent Sound Challenges Perfect Fine Heavy Spokes Thick Accents

Author:Odeya Rush

“I've always played music and I've always been in bands and there have been periods in my life where the music has taken a much more front row seat than any acting. For a big period of time the acting work was really a way of raising money to fund my music. And then that all sort of changed around and that's fine.”

Way Has Beens Bigs Acting Taken Fronts Changed Fine Periods Band Seats Fund Raising Money

Author:Jim Sturgess

“People are always going to say stuff about you and there are always going to be crazy rumours out there, but as long as you know the truth, you're fine.”

People Knows Long Stuff Crazy Fine Being Crazy Rumours

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“I find that at almost every press junket I get that comment, "this character's different from what you generally play..." And that's OK! But I think "generally play" stems back to Mr Darcy. I'm fine with it but I tend to find that if it's a departure, which in other people's words it always is, it's always a departure from that.”

People Ifs Thinking Different Play Character Fine Presses Comment Stem Departure Darcy

Author:Colin Firth

“I think that there are certain guns that, of course, I don't know who needs a machine gun, personally. But I think rifles and things like that are fine. I think that in the wrong hand is when a gun becomes a problem.”

Thinking Knows Needs Problem Hands Certain Courses Fine Gun Machines Rifles Machine Guns

Author:Morgan Spurlock

“Sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it. They're just not getting what I'm doing, and that's fine.”

Different Sometimes Fine Criticism Receiving Constructive Frequency Mindless

Author:Michael Ian Black

“I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.”

People Art Moments Dream Film Sides Behinds Alive Fine Cameras Experiments Digital Dreams Come True Gallery Fine Arts Art Galleries

Author:Russell James

“I think that education works up to a certain point... I think unless I wanted to be like a nurse, or a doctor, or something that required that kind of knowledge, then education is fine. But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I didn't see the point in spending seven more years of my life studying something.”

Thinking Knows Years Kind Wanted Certain Study Fine Doctors Seven Spending Nurse

Author:Lily Allen

“I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.”

Film Sides Deals Mines Huge Fine

Author:Richard Linklater

“I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never say that hip-hop is going down. It's cool, but it needs an adjustment. I think that hip-hop just needs a little fine-tuning.”

Thinking Needs Littles Stills Jobs Fine Hip Hop Hips Hops Crew Adjustment Get Money Tuning Fine Tuning

Author:Redman

“My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's fine with me. I have no bitterness about it. When I was 3, she went to America for months. I never had any problems with that. I even liked it.”

Problem America Mother Fun Fine Months Drinking Having Fun Bitterness Going Out Absent

Author:Sophie Calle

“There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.”

Ifs Stories Political Certain Courses Impossible Fine Type China Violent Ghost Genre Graphic Ghost Stories

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.”

Mother Inspiring Fine Trump Catholic Guilt Jew Mothers Day

Author:Diane Lane

“Filmmaking can be a fine art.”

Art Actors Fine Movie Filmmaking Fine Arts

Author:Terri Windling

“I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"”

Self Hate Fine Conscious Inclination Self Conscious

Author:Philip Morrison

“Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.”

Littles Shows Actors Situation Stage Tvs Fine Actresses Performing Tv Shows

Author:Wanda Sykes

“That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.”

Giving Kind Stills Enough Character Able Fiction Fine Balance Surprise Artistic Fiction Writers

Author:Alan Lightman

“We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen, or give us a fine day for the picnic. And we actually expect him to be on our side in an election or war even though our opponents are also God's children.”

Giving Children War Asks Nations Sides Fine Election Queens Opponents Bless Picnics Fine Day

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.”

Trying Children Kids Young Actors Interest Fine Discouraging Squash Child Actors

Author:John Leguizamo

“If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.”

Ifs Art Ideas Creativity Communication Fine Creating Communicate Fine Arts

Author:Seymour Chwast

“I'm fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say 'Fine - how was your lobotomy?'”

Ifs Asks Fine Proud Fats Ask Me Diets Lobotomy

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.”

Thinking Way Wells Looks Mean Water Prayer Fine Holy Harm Touching Dessert Holy Water

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.”

Ifs Want Should House Fine Blind Furniture

Book:The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself

Source: The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself

“We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.”

“Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.”

Kindness Dog Fine Tails Wags

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“For the church to say that abortion is not acceptable for a Catholic is fine. To say directly or indirectly that on something that is a church teaching that you must also vote according to that - that's not acceptable in a country based on the First Amendment.”

Firsts Country Church Teaching Fine Vote Catholic Abortion Acceptable Amendments First Amendment

Author:Patrick Leahy

“People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.”

People Ifs Thinking Company Dog Fine Substitutes

Author:Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

“The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.”

Men Doe Soul Events Fine Habit Exercise Spring Excellence Lifetime Active Faculty Fine Day

Author:Aristotle

“I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.”

Men Done Literature Teach Objects Judging Fine Artistic Publishers Good Business Business Man

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.”

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