Quotes of: Fine-arts Keyword

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Benjamin Constant

I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone.

Det fine som flyter forbi

We look for pretty girls we can say bad things to. No one shows up.

Det fine som flyter forbi

I can tell she’s upset, but I can’t be bothered to say anything. Some days are just like that.

Det fine som flyter forbi

He calls himself working class, which I think is a bit ironic since he doesn’t work.

Det fine som flyter forbi

Richness and fat does need, In logic clever fine deeds, But paunches never do breed, Fine thoughts or sublime seeds. [45] - 2

Eddies of Life

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

A Fine Balance

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

A Fine Balance

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

A Fine Balance

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.

A Fine Balance

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

A Fine and Private Place

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

A Fine and Private Place

It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.

A Fine and Private Place

If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine.

The Flower in the Skull

It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

Bruiser

I'll be a lady tomorrow

Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West

For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence

Stay

Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.

Steven Moffat

After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, 'That's fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,' which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.

Josie Loren

I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.

Jason Mewes