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Quotes About Finer

I have read Geminis are peaceful, who have an eye for finer things. That ways, yes, I'm a true Gemini.
~ Amrita Rao
It's for us, Daud. To get us out, into the Orbitals...Where it's clean, Daud...Where we're not in the street, because there isn't a street...It'll be different. Something we haven't known. Something finer. You should see your eyes when you say that...Like you've just put a needle in your veins. Like that hope is your drug, and you're hooked on it.
~ Walter Jon Williams
it would have been an affront to all good souls who had worked for a better world over the millennia not to engineer a system for preserving finer thoughts after the millennium arrived and all ideologies died and people became animals once more.
~ Douglas Coupland
Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
~ Zoltan Kodaly
The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.
~ Swami Vivekananda
He liked order and precision, and his crew knew it. He had hand-picked each and every one of them, and he'd never sailed with a finer group of men. Not that he would ever say it out loud, but they knew it.
~ Jeff Grubb
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
~ Plato
Art is all in the details.
~ Christian Marclay
This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I think also that in an adult the desire to be finer in grain than you are, a constant striving (as those people say who gain their bread by saying it) only adds to this unhappiness in the end--that end that comes to our youth and hope.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
As I finished up my time at Duke, I certainly wasn't a 'foodie' but I was learning to enjoy the finer things in the culinary world.
~ J. J. Redick
Glaswegians have always loved the finer things but with the emergence of good shopping and such like we're finding it easier to show what were really capable of.
~ Jim Kerr
I do not know how I shall develop, but for the present, I am continuing to work within ordinary, generally known terrain, different only because of a deep substratum, which leads those who are receptive to sense the finer regions.
~ Piet Mondrian
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
~ Salman Rushdie
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.
~ Kiana Tom
he does, there are ways to camouflage many imperfections so that they don't stand out like a sore thumb. A talented groomer probably can make an average Poodle look much finer than a near-perfect Poodle trimmed by an amateurish groomer.
~ Shirlee Kalstone
My father was the artistic one. At a very young age, my father realised I had a strong voice and made me learn Hindustani vocal. I was five. I have Dad to thank for introducing me to the finer things in life.
~ Lillete Dubey
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call 'the world': to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
~ Karl Popper
The walls are bare; look out of the window and you have a finer sight than any painter has ever placed on a piece of canvas.
~ Iain Pears
Guard against this tendency of adjectives to march in pairs. They love to do it but it destroys all finer cadences.
~ Edith Foster Flint, c.1904
A young boy who has not fallen desperately in love has missed getting started in the world of feeling. At any age love is wrong only if it means nothing... You must be the criterion of any love...There's only one test... Does the love you feel make you a bigger and a stronger person?... (I)f any love makes you stronger and more determined to share, then it's much finer than most people ever attain.
~ James A. Michener
I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.
~ Kiana Tom
A braver, finer, more representative, good old American sport I never knew than Charley Miller. He isn't talking about retiring from business and having a good time. He has a good time in his work.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I figured I'd embellish the truth a little, since the police might not be up on the finer points of bounty hunterism and might not understand about commandeering.
~ Janet Evanovich