#fine

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

#among #art #because #feel #feels

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. ↗

— Stephen King

#daily #daily lives #finer #god #higher

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#fine #me #people #region

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#artist #contrary #finer #immorality #morality

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

#art #attempts #beauty #been #define

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground. ↗

— Della Reese

#born #ghetto #ground #i #i was born

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice. ↗

— Tim Vine

#complimented #driving #fine #know #left

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#boxer #content #fight #fine #get

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#far #feel #how #i #know

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#clever #healthy #idea #illness #making