Best Fine Quotes

The best is yet to come, and won’t that be fine? You think you’ve seen the sun, but you ain’t seen it shine.

Most writers – poets in especial – prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy – an ecstatic intuition – and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that’s fine, but just don’t look down on me. Don’t say, ‘Oh, you’re in a wheelchair.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

I think business leaders all over the world should not just think of how we can make lots of money, which is fine, but to take some of the problems in the world and get out there and tackle them using business. I think that if businesses do that we can get on top of these problems.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered … that we are behind our age…. sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

Religion – religion, at best – at BEST – is like a lift in your shoe. If you need it for a while, and it makes you walk straight and feel better – fine. But you don’t need it forever, or you can become permanently disabled. Religion is like a lift in the shoe, and I say just don’t ask me to wear your shoes. And let’s not go down and nail lifts onto the natives’ feet.

The best is yet to come and won’t that be fine.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

I am reminded of a piece of advice my father gave me regarding shoes. …He said it is better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. One pair made of fine leather could outlast four inferior pairs and, if well-cared-for, would continue to proclaim your good judgment and taste no matter how old they become.

My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

Charity is a fine thing if it’s meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

Slow down you’re doing fine
You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

Your dream was given to you. If someone else can’t see it for you, that’s fine, it was given to you and not them. It’s your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!

I don’t mind at all being approached when I’m 10 or more feet away from the car. If I’m anywhere away from the car, I’m fine. That’s completely expected. But when I’m next to the car or within 10 feet of it, I’m thinking about that or working in that direction. And that’s just something I’d rather be able to work on than be interrupted, really, by anybody.

People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.

I know specifically me being somebody who has had most of my experiences within the black church, that’s cultural… you gotta put on your church clothes when you got to church…and it’s nothing wrong with that – that’s absolutely fine! But I think what’s happening to a new generation ,the hip hop generation, there’s astigmatism, a feeling that I’m unwelcome.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That’s the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It’s dream time.

We believe we’re seeing the world just fine until it’s called to our attention that we’re not.

But if you’re talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Labels don’t mean anything to me. I’m trying to play as passionately as I’m able to. If they want to call that cool, that’s fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it’s a stinking way to create.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

I entered his apartment without being invited, which is perfectly fine if you’re not a vampire.

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don’t call it science.