#fine

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#called #came #citizenship #everything #exams

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#establish #fine #fine thing #greater #heart

So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#clear #consciousness #depend #even #existence

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. ↗

— Christine Lavin

#eccentrics #fine #fine line #groove #just

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me. ↗

— Jack Layton

#been #canada #career #continue #defined

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#computers #cooperation #current #enabling #extension

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#old #our #pleasures #recall #refine

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#away #capitalism #corrupts #destroys #exploits

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#consistency #could #felt #fine #great

Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#brooks #cheap #comedy #figured #fine