Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'
I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off.
While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
H.I.: This is Gale and Evelle Snoats. As fine a pair as ever... broke and entered!
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.
However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.
As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.
Minnie: Fine I wash me hands of it let you all be murdered in your beds.
To tell you the truth, I thought I would be returning kicks and punts my whole career. I thought that was going to be my deal, and I was fine with that.
It is fine to be all focused on gymnastics if that is what you want to do, but once you are finished with gymnastics, what are you going to do?
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.
Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
