Top Fine Quotes

The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

Fine Definition

(superl.) Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.

(superl.) Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.

(superl.) Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.

(superl.) Not coarse, gross, or heavy

(superl.) Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous.

(superl.) Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.

(superl.) Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.

(superl.) Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.

(superl.) Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.

(superl.) Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.

(superl.) (Used ironically.)

(a.) To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.

(a.) To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.

(a.) To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.

(n.) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.

(n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.

(n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.

(n.) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.

(n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.

(v. i.) To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b).

(v. t.) To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.

Don't ask me why am I not fine, don't say a word just come and hug me. Even if I don't hug you back at that very moment, don't let me go. Hug me more tightly, let me hear your heart beating for me, le...

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just f...

Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Frien...

There’s a pulse in my body, vibrating every pressure point.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Glielo spiegai; non a parole, ma nel linguaggio della carne, di labbra, lingua e mani, del respiro accelerato e del pulsare del sangue nelle vene, nell'umore salato del desiderio. È la stessa domanda...

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Furono trovati tra tutte quelle carcasse raccapriccianti due scheletri di cui uno teneva l'altro strettamente abbracciato. Uno di questi due scheletri, che era quello di una donna, aveva ancora qualch...

Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'...

When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

There's a fine line between patriotism and corn.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.