quotes about Finest
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The finest mode of transport known to man.
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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
-- Albert Einstein -
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
-- Alexander Pope -
You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.
-- Anne Rice -
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One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver.
-- Barry Nolan -
America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait -
our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.
-- Bonnie Friedman -
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Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed
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Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.
-- Chick HearnSource : Source: articles.latimes.com
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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
-- David Lloyd GeorgeSource : Speech at Paris Peace Conference, 18 Jan. 1919, in The Times 20 Jan. 1919
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These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists,
-- Denis Hayes -
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In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
-- Donald Bren -
The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.
-- Dorothy Draper -
The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
-- Erin MorgensternSource : "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.
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Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.
-- Evel Knievel -
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The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.
-- George CatlinSource : George Catlin (1857). “Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: With Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing ; with 360 Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings”, p.23
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Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.
-- Havelock EllisSource : Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.52, Elsevier
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An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.
-- Henry Louis Gates -
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
-- Irving Stone -
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A stunner…reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.
-- James Rollins -
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
-- John Lyly -
Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.
-- John Motson -
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
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The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?
-- Lee WulffSource : Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
-- Leslie CaronSource : Leslie Caron (1983). “Vengeance”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.
-- Lisa Unger -
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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
...the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.
-- Max GreenfieldSource : "Max Greenfield on his current role on New Girl and his Veronica Mars history". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2012.
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Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
-- Morey Amsterdam -
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Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?
-- Muriel BarberySource : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.
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If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.
-- Nathan Farragut Twining -
Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.
-- Paul Begala -
Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.
-- Peter Paul Rubens -
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There is the finest line between data and evidence.
-- Randall Dale Adams -
A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
-- Richard Gregory -
Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.
-- Robert Stack -
Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.
-- Steven Erikson -
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I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.
-- Taron Egerton -
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
-- Thomas More -
The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.
-- Thomas ReidSource : Thomas Reid (1822). “The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.367
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An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.
-- Tori Amos -
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He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.
-- Ty Cobb -
... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.
-- W. Eugene Smith -
Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.
-- Wayne Thiebaud -
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
-- Yann MartelSource : Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.69, Vintage Canada
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It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
-- Ignatius of Loyola -
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
-- Roger Babson -
One of the things that I wanted was to be known as one of the finest MCs and I think the people gave me the respect I was looking for.
-- Kurupt -
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
-- Lou GehrigSource : Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York
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