It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.
A year before I met Mark Brydon – he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko – I was living in Sheffield with a guy who was studying architecture. I used to go to his college and crash the lectures there. I had enrolled to do a fine art course, but then I met Mark, and we signed a record deal instead.
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
Where I’ve arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there’s a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.
As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I’m fine.
You’re either a person with a conscience, or you’re not. I think I’ve got quite a fine conscience.
The way I’ve always approached it is if we’re winning and people want to talk about me, it’s fine. If we’re losing, then you really get on me, and I’ll definitely try to be better to help us win. But I’m fine with it, as long as we’re winning and we’re playing good basketball.
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything’s fine.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I’m a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people’s expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
Confidence is not, ‘They will like me’. Confidence instead is, ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’.
I don’t change the way that I play. I love the game of basketball, man. I ride with these guys in this locker room. They know that. If I’ve got something to say to them, I will say it. You may not like the way that it comes across. That’s fine. But that’s who I am.
I don’t worry about a number. I’m fine with aging.
Someday, I expect to see a television version of ‘Hamlet’ and see Hamlet come on during the intermission and hold up his sword and say ‘This is made of the same fine steel as such-and-such razor blades.’
I’ll just let people think what they would like to think, and that’s fine, because it really doesn’t infringe upon my life.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
I know who I am, and I know what my ambitions are. If one kid sees me on TV or sees me in a movie and relates, then I’m done. That’s perfectly fine. That’s enough for me.
OK, I wasn’t as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I’d spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men… I like playing bad guys, and I don’t have a problem doing that. They’re interesting characters, and there’s as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys – they’re rich, they’re strong, they’re powerful, and so that’s fine with me.
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
It takes eight to nine months for a Berluti client to get a pair of custom-made shoes and it’s fine. I was always against see now/buy now, as I don’t think it’s relevant to what we do and is not a good image of luxury.
I loathe categorization. I cherish my independence, and I treasure chivalry. I live just fine with ambiguity, and I welcome a good quarrel about all things designed or grown – except for when men misnomer ‘confident’ with ‘poised’ and ‘passionate’ with ‘feisty.’ I work hard.
I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never able to apply to a decent college because I had no math, no science – I was allowed to just paint all day and write.
Having a child makes you realize the importance of life – narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I’d be fine.
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn’t worth much any more.
I use technology for communication, but I don’t have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I’m fine with it.
Yippee! I can’t believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I’m so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I’m relieved to be 40 years old, and I’ve lived a life.
If you’d rather go to the football game than read a comic, that’s fine. I’d rather do both.
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
Skimming is fine for our emails, but it’s not fine for some of the important forms of reading.
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.
I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with that, but why can’t that exist hand in hand with an album? They’re such different experiences.
If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that’s fine. But once it affects someone’s opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
I’m fine with just a simple life.
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
History will dictate what my legacy is. And ‘maverick’ is fine, because I am.
While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
For the theatre one needs long arms… an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that’s fine. I have a charmed life.
I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I’ve been playing for laughs for decades now! It’s lovely to get a laugh; it’s the best thing in the world!
If I get a song – a good song – I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that’s fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible.
I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.
Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.
Everything seems fine until you’re about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, ‘While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it’s a funny thing, but I’m an exception to that rule.’
There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.
I’m really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can’t go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I’m totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.
I know I’m not everyone’s taste and that’s fine, and that is the beauty of digital and radio that you can find what you want to listen to.
Everybody says they want to have private providers and we’re saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don’t just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.
I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
