Finer Person Quotes

#1. If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

Shinichi Suzuki

#2. There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].

Harlan Ellison

#3. When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.

Lee R. Raymond

#5. Your mother wasn't upset. "Scars stay with you so you don't forget," she said. She seemed almost satisfied.

Jinat Rehana Begum

#6. When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#7. If that guy had defended Pontius Pilate, he would have convinced the jury that he was simply assisting a young carpenter who wanted to buy some nails for a cross he was working on.

Jeffrey Archer

#8. And once he said do not forget
the north wind brings
light from the house of Aries
to the apple trees

W.G. Sebald

#9. She [Sidonie Rougon] never spoke of her husband, nor of her childhood, her family, or her personal concerns. There was only one thing she never sold, and that was herself.

Emile Zola

#10. No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Sam Rayburn

#11. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

Mark Pellegrino

#13. Tobi had summed it up in Jigsaw: A band is any song you ever played with anybody even if only once.

Sara Marcus

#14. My energy flagged because of heavy cold but the guys took up the slack.

Robin Trower

#15. I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#16. The harder the life, the finer the person

Wilfred Thesiger

#17. A good breakfast is better than a bad one, like a good book is better than having your toe chopped off.

Lemony Snicket

#18. Human beings are not houses - you don't walk in and say, 'Well, so long as we gut the kitchen and add a third bathroom, this could work,' or, 'It has no charm, but it's close to work and it's all I can afford.' No. You love them as they are, or you let them find someone else who does.

Sara Eckel

#19. But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.

Steve Spurrier

#20. Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!

E. M. Forster

#21. My body is my own," I said. "I may choose to share it with someone, but it's not for sale or for hire, nor is it a reward. I'd rather starve to death than use it as such.

Erica Dakin