All Quotes

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.
‐‐ Lewis Black

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.
‐‐ Mark Dayton

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!
‐‐ Frank Gorshin

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
‐‐ Mark Twain

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
‐‐ Roger Babson

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
‐‐ Evel Knievel

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
‐‐ David Lloyd George

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
‐‐ Isadora Duncan

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
‐‐ George Eliot

The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.
‐‐ Lake Bell

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 finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

The finger lick is just a really bad habit - I do it all the time. My wife Ashley is going to kill me if I do it at dinner one more time. I look like an animal about to dig in.
‐‐ Peyton Manning

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
‐‐ Marc Chagall

The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.
‐‐ Ben Edwards

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
‐‐ Franz Halder

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
‐‐ James P. Carse

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
‐‐ Tarja Halonen

The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is.
‐‐ Sauli Niinisto

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
‐‐ Morrissey

The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
‐‐ Burke Marshall

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
‐‐ Martin Puryear

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really big principal roles that I was ever given an opportunity to dance with American Ballet Theatre, and it was a huge step for the African-American community, I think, within the classical ballet world.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
‐‐ Ed Koch

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
‐‐ Confucius

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
‐‐ Sallust

The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.
‐‐ John Updike

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.
‐‐ Powers Boothe

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
‐‐ Peter Zumthor

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
‐‐ Roger McGuinn

The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.
‐‐ Jean Fritz

The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.
‐‐ Siobhan Davies

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
‐‐ Charles Colson

The first 45 or 50 years of the regional theater movement, all these folks, they built these theaters. The job of the next generation is to maintain them.
‐‐ Kenny Leon

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.
‐‐ David Bergen

The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.
‐‐ Stephen J. Cannell

The first act is writing, the second act is filming, the third act is releasing. If you have to partake in the third act, it hurts the first act of the next one. It's like a prizefight. You get punched.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
‐‐ Laura Prepon

The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.
‐‐ John Krasinski