Fine Quotes

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Always follow your heart. Sometimes it's gonna hurt - but you're going to be fine.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

[On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.

As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, its fine with me.

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.

There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

You will have to look at the tape. Actually, you could burn the tape. It's not even worth looking at... We just have to move on to next week. If we just get the next one we will be fine.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But that's not why I do them. I'm a gun for hire.

My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

You've got to be fine with who you are.

At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.

I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

I used to like girls with nice hands and legs, but now, as long as she loves me and doesn't leave me, that would be fine.

[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more caring? The family structure is unbelievably strong.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

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.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

I always feel better and more beautiful in things that I'm comfortable in so I was fine with putting a little makeup on and keeping my leggings on and going to a party.

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks