Quotes about fine
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“Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist

Books, Youth, Age, Light

“don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Lie

“I don't let just anyone fine me, you know?”

Andrew Smith

“How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Thinking

“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Letters and Social Aims

People, Tea

“… we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

World, Understanding

“Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine.

- Katniss”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Reality, Time

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer

Education, Reading, Wise

“You look nervous.”
“I’m… a little nervous.”
“You’ll be fine. You’re pretty. You’re alien. You’ll trend well.”

Chuck Wendig book Aftermath

Aftermath

“It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

World, Time

“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Fish

“Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke."

Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?"

"Not particularly."

"Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Duke and I

“I turned to Thalia. ‘I’ll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?’
She sighed. ‘Fine. Let’s go catch this jerk.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Jerk, Flowers

“Inuyasha: "Stop blubbering already, I'm fine."
Kagome:"I'm not blubbering."
Inuyasha:"Okay, crying."
Kagome:"I am not."
Inuyasha:"Are too."
Kagome:I am NOT!"
Inuyasha:"You are so!"
Kagome:"I am not, so just shuddup and sit!”

Rumiko Takahashi (1957) manga artist

Cry

“Should I pull on a shirt?" he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. "No." He'd be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn't going to tell him that part. "You're fine.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

World, Parting

“You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVII : Misdemeanour; Helen to Arthur

Love, Hate, Jealousy, Thinking

“To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Men, Soul, Passion, Despair

“When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Books

“no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Variant: It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Source: The Great Gatsby

Past

“There's a fine line between criminality and genius."
-Dan Cahill”

Jude Watson book A King's Ransom

Source: A King's Ransom

“The rejection didn't faze him. "Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Variant: Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.
Source: Lover Eternal

Parting

“That's beautiful,' Valkyrie said, looking at it.

Isn't it? This necklace has cost two very fine men their lives. At times, I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Playing with Fire

Men, Beauty, Time

“Knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severly for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.”

Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)

Letter to Elizabeth Shaw (20 March 1791)

Knowledge, Daughters

“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

People, Dreams, Time

“A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.”

Robert McKee (1941) American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters

Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Art, Music, Silence, Dance

“You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Feeling, Fight

“Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him.
"A fine pair we make,” he said.
"Yeah.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Hostility

“And metaphors like cats behind your smile,
Each one wound up to purr,
each one a pride,
Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (…)”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Smile, Cats

“She is fine. She hates us both but it really didn't sound like anything else was wrong”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Hate

“One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Valiant

Boy, Fight, Night, Dead

“But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.”

Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Source: Your Voice in My Head

Pain, Sadness, Wine

“The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives”

Alfred De Vigny book Stello

Source: Stello

World, Girl

“But Rose? While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to brake his heartmuch when the time comes.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Variant: While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes.
Source: Spirit Bound

Time, Happiness

“Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

Confidence

“You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now."
Alec stared at him in horror.
"Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Way, Kiss

“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Education

“You saw my leg?"
"How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Help

“the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long -- but it had no bottom and no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

Loss, Cry

“His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.”

William Gibson book Neuromancer

Source: Neuromancer

Training

“Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. “You shouldn’t have turned it on! It’s unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

“if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Positive, Feeling

“Fine" I said icily. "I'll do this. but i want it noted that I'm doing this against my will."

"I think we already figured that out, Miss Hathaway.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Thinking

“The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Love, World, Tree, Perfection

“Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Life, Soul, Heart

“I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy? ]”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Bird, Parting, Happiness

“In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine…”

Celia Rees (1949) English author

Source: Witch Child

“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”

Ian Fleming book Casino Royale

Source: Casino Royale

People

“Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 56. Compare Psalm 30:5 (KJV): "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."

World, Soul, Joy, Clothes

“What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Startled by His Furry Shorts

“The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”

Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Problem, Memory, Evil, Cry

“The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Death, Pain

“You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Hate

“As they went by Assail, the male was watching them. "Jesus, he really is blind"
Wrath pulled up short and unsheathed his dagger, pointed it directly into the guys face. "But my hearing is just fine”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

Guy

“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.”

Martha Cooley book The Archivist

Source: The Archivist

Books, Time

“Fine… a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Truth

“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)

Life, Fear, Anger

“No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Clothes

“Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Love, Making love, Cheating

“If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ch 43
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Hate, World, Fight

“It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

Night

“I entered his apartment without being invited, which is perfectly fine if you're not a vampire.”

Lisa Lutz (1970) US author

Source: The Spellmans Strike Again

“… and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Variant: You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.
Source: Gone Girl

Life, Home, Drink, Thinking

“The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. A fine example was the Prodigal Son—when he started back home.”

O. Henry book The Four Million

"The Green Door" http://books.google.com/books?id=dKk_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+true+adventurer+goes+forth+aimless+and+uncalculating+to+meet+and+greet+unknown+fate+A+fine+example+was+the+Prodigal+Son+when+he+started+back+home%22&pg=PA151#v=onepage <br class="br">The Four Million (1906)

Fate, Home

“Percy grunted. “Believe me, some days I regret the choice. Oh, you want to turn down our offer? Okay, fine! ZAP! Lose your memory! Go to Tartarus!”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Memory

“Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.”

Nora Ephron book Heartburn

Nora Ephron, Heartburn (1983), as reported in What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present (1989), p. 320.

People

“Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Truth

“It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.”

John Steinbeck book The Pastures of Heaven

Source: The Pastures of Heaven

Reading

“Just be yourself and you'll be fine”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 1

“There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.”

Austin Grossman book Soon I Will Be Invincible

Source: Soon I Will Be Invincible

“I’m a rat,’’ Robert said. ‘’I’m not going into a reptile’s mouth.’’
Oh boy. Fine time to develop phobias”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Boy, Time

“I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.”

Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Source: The Sportswriter

Life, Dreams, Way

“Bran was always a deceptive bastard, gentle and mild right up until he ripped your throat out. He had many other fine qualities as well.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

“I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“You know when people say fine, it generally means ‘leave me the hell alone because I don’t want to talk about what’s really bothering me.' (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

People, Hell

“"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see —
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

185: "Faith" is a fine invention
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

Faith

“Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friend calls it.”

Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation

Source: Dept. of Speculation

Birth

“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”

Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian

As quoted in With Truth as Our Sword (2005) by C E Sylvester, p. 205

Drawing

“It’s just a mild disagreement, Papa. Remi has this whole need to breathe in and out, which annoys me. If he would just stop breathing, I’d be fine. (Aimee)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

“Jamie : "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me.". Landon : "Including me?". Jamie : "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!".”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.”

David Sedaris book Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Source: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“Vampires don't live at all," she points out, "neither do we."
She has me there. "Fine, I'll go. But when Kurt leads his minions in a march around the cemetary with our heads on sticks, don't say I didn't warn you.”

Cynthia Leitich Smith (1967) American writer and poet

Source: Eternal

“You can be known as Val or Babycakes.”
His gaze darkened. “My name is Valerius and I will not answer to Val.”
She shrugged. “Fine then, Babycakes, have it your way.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Way

“Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.”

Carl Hiaasen book Hoot

Source: Hoot

Stupidity, Courage, Time, Fight

“Is Tyson okay?' I asked.
The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Question, Cry

“Fine, I guess it's ok then. Go ahead."
"Huh? What's ok?"
"It's okay if you marry my brother.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh.”

Patricia Highsmith book The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

Flowers, Happiness

“Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Dave Barry Turns 40 (1990)

History, Beer, Question

“Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Stupidity

“Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Full Circle

Night

“There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Thinking, Patience

“But you'll be killed!"
"I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice."
Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Kiss

“I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Time

“Memories were fine, but you couldn't touch them. They were never exactly as the moment had been, & they faded w/ time”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Variant: Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.

Memory, Time

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