She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need.
Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the prop...
Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits t...
I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of riddi...
Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.
Nature is fine in love, fine as in thin and delicate, as in not firm. We move to attach, more than we understand, to things and people we love that we feel might be an anchoring point for this fine, precious love. When those anchors disappear, a part...
I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my...
the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair
How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.
Ci vuole sempre la disgrazia per aprire gli occhi alla gente
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.
At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.
Sin when you are drunk, pay the fine when you are sober.
