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Quotes About Fine

Is she very terrible?" The Green Wind frowned into his brambly beard. "All little girls are terrible, " he admitted finally, "but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Olli punched in with the cymbal-whack of her typewriter by the alley-side window while a happy neon sign six stories down flashing Hobart and Sons' Fine Smokables got its purple light all tangled up in her eyelashes.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
All little girls are terrible,' he admitted finally. 'but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The Green Wind frowned into his brambly beard. "All little girls are terrible," he admitted finally, "but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Every Jew, and every converso, knew that the Inquisition was as much about filling the royal purse as purifying the Spanish church. For payment of a rapacious fine, most prisoners could walk—or hobble, or be borne on a litter, depending on how long they had been held—from the doors of the Casa Santa.
~ Geraldine Brooks
My dad says fine tools always get fine care.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
...the University of Arizona, a very fine school, well liked and spoken of by everybody that knows about it.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.
~ Keir Starmer
Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities.
~ Amor Towles
As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
~ Marianne Williamson
I love sport, and I play to keep myself fine in the mind, because it helps there.
~ Paolo Maldini
If I take a stand for something, then it's an issue. 'Oh, he's about to get fined for that.' Why does the fine matter? Why does it matter in the course of what I'm trying to do? It isn't about the fine.
~ DeSean Jackson
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
~ Leonard Cohen
Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
~ Molly Ivins
Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
~ Charles MacArthur
Have you heard the word is love? It's so fine, it's sunshine.
~ The Beatles
The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man quick to search for the reality behind the expression of fine sentiments.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed – a knife – a purse – and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.
~ Thomas de Quincey
People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...
~ Thomas de Quincey
Hobbes, but why, or on what principle, I never could understand, was not murdered. This was a capital oversight of the professional men in the seventeenth century; because in every light he was a fine subject for murder, except, indeed, that he was lean and skinny;
~ Thomas de Quincey
She can be Mary Poppins but she can also be - I would never use the word 'crude' in the same sentence as Julie Andrews because she is so fine and beautiful - but she can be naughty and she doesn't mind a good joke.
~ Nicholas Hammond
But I can't deny my heart: I like to drink, and I like to rock. You think I'm an idiot? Fine. You don't have to come over.
~ Chuck Klosterman
This is such a fine neighborhood, even the beer they leave out for the animals is imported from Germany or Mexico.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Parties, he said, bored him—such were English aristocrats before marriage with intellect had adulterated the fine singularity of their minds.
~ Virginia Woolf