Top 135 Finest Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Finest Quotes from famous people such as Rene Descartes, Linda Ellerbee, Knute Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, Sonia Sotomayor, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation wi

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
Linda Ellerbee
I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.
Knute Nelson
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I’ve ever seen.
Jack Nicklaus
I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation’s finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
Sonia Sotomayor
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
Kristin Armstrong
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James
I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I’ve seen.
Donald Wolfit
In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.
Ann Macbeth
‘Brooklyn’s Finest,’ this is the kind of movie that’s why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.
Ethan Hawke
Shoe design is like architecture – with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
Patrick Cox
I find that often, room service menus are highly condensed. They tend to be a little bit fast food-oriented, even at the finest hotels.
Ivanka Trump
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
Creighton Abrams
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
Walter Pater
His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don’t know what made me go on the trip with him, but I’m so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I’ve ever seen.
Nancy Sinatra
There’s nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.
Catherine Jinks
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases ‘biggest in the world,’ ‘finest in the world,’ are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the ‘biggest scoundrels’ in the world.
Isabella Bird
The gold iridescent ‘Naked’ outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.
Louise Nurding
Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.
Matthew Stewart
George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.
Max Greenfield
Probably I would have got more money if I’d stayed in Italy. It was said that I took England for the money. Absolutely not. I took it because it’s the biggest football job in the world, the finest job you can have. I enjoyed it every day.
Sven-Goran Eriksson
I like nothing more than a character sacrificing himself or herself for the sake of others. That’s drama at its finest for me.
Bryan Konietzko
District attorneys are often some of the finest public servants. However, the system in which they operate to investigate cases of police misconduct leaves a huge window for unintended bias.
Letitia James
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.
Mark Mothersbaugh
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
STREET by 50 is all about giving our fans the finest music experience we possibly can. The response to the limited edition colors so far speaks for itself – the fans want the opportunity to match their headphones to their personal style, and we definitely want to make sure to give them what they want.
Curtis Jackson
One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.
Robert Baden-Powell
I discovered that the world of the finest restaurants was something akin to the world of the Mafia.
Marco Pierre White
Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
Rahm Emanuel
He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Arthur Miller
‘The Exorcist’ is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.
James Wan
A big percentage of the Argentine economy is founded on

A big percentage of the Argentine economy is founded on beef ranching, and they produce steaks the size of dustbin lids. Malbec is the finest red wine in the world, and most restaurants have a wide selection.
Chris Tarrant
‘8 Mile’ could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a competitor by revealing that the guy went to suburban Detroit Cranbrook, one of the finest private schools in the country.
Elvis Mitchell
My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country’s finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
John Burnside
It’s so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.
Robin S. Sharma
Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I’ll tell you what these young kids have: They have a natural authority in Shakespeare. They feel a right to do it. And once they honor the humanity of it, the rhythm of the verse comes with it.
Roger Rees
While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look.
Stephane Rolland
I am really pleased to sign permanently with St. Etienne. It was my ambition in coming to St. Etienne. This is one of the finest passages of my young career.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Even the finest actors will have great difficulty showing somebody’s loneliness. To put an actor on a chair and ask him to do nothing and yet tell the viewer everything about the character, it’s a difficult task.
Manoj Bajpayee
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
Bertolt Brecht
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
John L. Lewis
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
Ted Nugent
We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.
Daryl Gates
The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.
Noam Chomsky
I was lucky in my early years to play for a Karnataka team that was trying to forge itself into a strong side, and they were years of fun and learning. In the Indian team, I was fortunate to be part of a wonderful era when India played some of its finest cricket at home and abroad.
Rahul Dravid
The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
Bayard Taylor
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Harold Bloom
Petr Cech is one of the finest goalkeepers I have seen and he has proved that in the Premier League.
Bruce Grobbelaar
Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.
Evel Knievel
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.
Jerry Saltz
The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones.
Dorothea Dix
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
Plautus
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
David Lloyd George
Add a teaspoon of single cream, say, to a sauce just before serving to give it a touch of extra smoothness and depth. You also need single cream to float on top of Irish coffee. And you should probably use the finest unpasteurised double cream to make syllabub.
Rick Stein
‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest.
Janet Malcolm
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson
One of life’s finest things is enjoying your food.
Daisy Lowe
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither – these make the finest company in the world.
Logan Pearsall Smith