Top 50 Finer Quotes

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

I have read Geminis are peaceful, who have an eye for finer things. That ways, yes, I’m a true Gemini.

You don’t need a title. You don’t need a degree in business organization or be trained in the finer arts of persuasion. You just need to believe you can lead. So start there. Start believing.

I love the finer things.

I have long believed that there is no finer group than those who serve in the Department of Justice.

I can’t think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.

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.

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.

I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.

Books are a finer world within the world.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.

I love plays that have musical moments. I’m not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don’t know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but ‘Finer Noble Gases’ is as close as I’ve gotten.

I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually.

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.

I am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it’s one of the reasons I’ve been welcomed so warmly into their world.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

No one dislikes LL Cool J. If you meet LL Cool J, you fall in love with LL Cool J. LL and I had mutual friends, and he and I had always talked about doing something. My fans know LL’s music. And I love him – we’re blood brothers at this point. We’ve been through the fire together. I know no finer person.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being that we could have a finer division of labor and be more specialized.

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I’d rather play with.

When the sun shines in Britain there’s no finer place on Earth.

Once you attain stardom, you lose that finer touch with society. When you are a man on the street, you get to know every vibration. But once you attain this status, more than you, people become self-conscious by your presence.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

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.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

This making studies and then taking them home to use them is only half right. You get composition, but you lose freshness; you miss the subtle and, to the artist, the finer characteristics of the scene itself.

The first step in Occultism is the study of the invisible Worlds. These Worlds are invisible to the majority of people because of the dormancy of the finer and higher senses whereby they may be perceived, in the same way that the Physical World about us is perceived through the physical senses.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

You have to appreciate the finer points of your work; criticise, too, if needed. I am also my own worst and most honest critic. I can say things which nobody will ever dare say. Even the best of friends will stop at a point, whereas I can go beyond.

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don’t feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I’m going to keep that.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

I want to learn more about the game as a whole and about the finer points of technique across the line of scrimmage. I want to learn more about coverages and blitzes so I can kind of see the game before it happens.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

The true artist doesn’t substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Don’t get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

I remember debating the finer points of flaky pastry with my chicken-pot-pie-obsessed American dad. I remember the divine mix of Thai food, TV dinners, and hearty, homemade goodness that have shaped this palate of mine to this day. I remember all this, but I still Google my husband’s birthday. Thank God he’s famous.

The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe’s finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.

And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.