Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Joseph Conrad

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.
George Will

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
Fulton J. Sheen

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
John Cleese

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
Billie Joe Armstrong

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Paul Cezanne

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.
Ritchie Blackmore

I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.
Dawn French

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
Charlotte Bronte

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Kinky Friedman

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
Kinky Friedman

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

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver

You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.
Rob Zombie

I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.
Morgan Freeman

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'
Tommy Cooper

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
Jack Nicklaus

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
Laura Bush

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
Leonard Nimoy