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Quotes About Fine

Reporters struggled to convey the magnitude of this fine.
~ Ron Chernow
and a fine new moon, delicate as an eyelash, hung above them in the sapphire sky.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Special Assistant Agent in Charge Lang. He nearly smiled at the title she knew she'd botched again. Just 'Mr Lang' is fine.
~ Roxanne St. Claire
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
~ Salman Rushdie
The heathen grew up heathenish and, in Windsor Villa at least, that was just fine.
~ Salman Rushdie
I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.
~ Howe Gelb
Really; and you think this cousin pays her attentions? I only suppose so. What else can a strapping chap of twenty-one mean with a fine wench of seventeen?
~ Alexandre Dumas
In cases of invasion or insurrection, if the town-officers neglect to furnish the necessary stores and ammunition for the militia, the township may be condemned to a fine of from $200 to $500. It may readily be imagined that in such a case it might happen that no one cared to prosecute; hence the law adds that all the citizens may indict offences of this kind, and that half of the fine shall belong to the plaintiff. See Act of March 6, 1810, vol. ii. p. 236.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.
~ Ami McKay
Love is fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.
~ Joe Abercrombie
In case you never noticed, bards have a habit of dressing things up. There is a fine living, d'ya see, in songs about deep-wise witches, but in shitty idiots, less.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person
~ Joe Abercrombie
The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.
~ Joel Robuchon
Life is all about finding your place. All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through. He'll be fine. Like the rest of us. We just need some faith.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.
~ James Sheridan Knowles
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.
~ Dean Koontz
Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.
~ William Blake
I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Everything about her was at once vigorous and exquisite, at once strong and fine. He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.
~ Edith Wharton
LS/MFT–Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.
~ Anonymous
Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross,To see a fine lady upon a white horse;Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,She shall have music wherever she goes.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
A popular dramatist, Phrynichus, staged a play on the subject of the fall of Miletus. It was a hit and spectators wept at the moving reenactment. This did not do Phrynichus any good. He had laid bare their emotions and people were furious. They made him pay a heavy fine for reminding them of a real-life tragedy with which they were only too painfully familiar. They decreed that no drama on this subject should ever be presented again.
~ Anthony Everitt
For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
~ Garry Trudeau
As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.
~ Tommy Wiseau