Quotes with fine-tune

Quotes 41 till 60 of 187.

  • Edgar F. Magnin Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,
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  • Samuel Johnson Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jonathan Swift Fine words! I wonder were you stole them.
    Verses Occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach (1724)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bjork For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Sarah Bernhardt For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Mark Twain France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox Give us that grand word ''woman'' once again, and let's have done with ''lady''; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Plutarch Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Margaret Halsey He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Emily Dickinson His Labor is a Chant - his Idleness - a Tune - oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Lord Chesterfield I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bill Hicks I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
    Filling Up the Hump
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Sutter I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Moliere I live on good soup, not on fine words.
    Moliere
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • George Washington Carver I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so.
    letter to Hubert W. Pelt (24-02-1930)
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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