WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days...
One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a p...
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it o...
Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.
I pretend he doesn’t exist, and he does the same with me.
democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion
I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
Fine, fine, I’ll indulge in this ‘socializing’ thing you always rave about.
There are two things that grant a bit of immortality: books and children
But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.
There's definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it's a line you want to ride very carefully.
Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.
