Finesse Quotes - Page 2

• Escribir es la única forma que conozco de rezar.

  Helena María Viramontes

  Writing, Way, Praying

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• Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of self-disillusion the via dolorosa or "highway of despair," in Baillie's fine and florid rendering, like Jesus' route to Golgotha).

  Kenny Smith

  Jesus, Art, Philosophy

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• In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit. In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.

  Warren Farrell

  Past, Men, Careers

  "El mito del poder masculino". Libro de Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

  Helen Rowland

  Trabajo, Error, Hombres

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• I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.

  Megan Hart

  Men, Ears, Legs

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• Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.

  William Moulton Marston

  Powerful, Book, Keys

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• And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Liars, Lying

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.571, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

  Decano Smith

  Basketball, Beautiful, Games

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• The Russians are a little stronger, but they excel at the basics. Lock the hands, bear hugs, takedowns, riding are all strong points for them, whereas Americans tend to have more finesse and take more risks. They might let you up in order to hit something else, and that's completely different from the Russian approach.

  Gilbert Meléndez

  Strong, Hands, Order

  Fuente: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

  Gregory Maguire

  Thinking, Stories, Care

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• [My boys] they're all different. Jackie was very competitive. He was a tough kid - a little bit like Nick. Steve was sort of a finesse guy. He was a little bit like Nick - if he could touch it, he'd catch it. He played wide receiver at Florida State. Then, Gary came along and Gary was more my size.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Boys, Florida

  Fuente: www.nicklaus.com

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• In terms of playing, of course, Europe is definitely more finesse than playing in the WNBA. I think they're more skilled in terms of the overall ability. And here in the States, in the WNBA, we just kind of play off athleticism and just play.

  Cappie Pondexter

  Thinking, Europe, Play

  Fuente: uproxx.com

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• Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

  Rob Sheffield

  Heart, Play, Common Sense

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• The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Together, Pieces, Moments

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.16

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• Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Simple, Skills

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• I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.

  Tracy Morgan

  Couple, War, Sharks

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• Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised there was so much finesse - it was dynamic and simple but I wanted to be authentic to the original songs.

  Eric Hernández

  Song, Simple, Listening

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• The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.

  Herman Melville

  Moving, Games, Long

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.282, OUP Oxford

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• All my friends are always telling me how hard it is to have kids. 'Oh, David, it's so hard.' That's not hard. I'll tell you what hard is. Try talking your girlfriend into her third consecutive abortion. Yeah, that's hard, that takes finesse. You're just inconvenienced.

  David Cross

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

  "It's Not Funny". Stand-up comedy album by David Cross, November 14, 2004.

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• Nicky Egan has the finesse of Bonnie Raitt merged with the primal force of Janis Joplin. It is a rare combination. Her passion is a joy to behold - and her talent is undeniable. She belongs in any conversation about great contemporary female soul singers. If you're up for a revelatory evening, then put her high on your list.

  Steve Morse

  Passion, Joy, Soul

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• Una de las razones por las que el interés del público por el tenis masculino ha decaído en los últimos años es que el estilo dominante en el circuito, basado en la fuerza, es esencial y carece de pretensiones. Observen a Agassi de cerca alguna vez... está asombrosamente ausente de delicadeza, con movimientos que se parecen más a los de un músico de heavy metal que a los de un atleta... a lo que se parece realmente un tenista de alto nivel es a una película de la antigua Unión Soviética sofocando una rebelión. Es asombroso, pero brutal, con un poder despiadado y sin rostro que lo hace curiosamente aburrido y vacío.

  David Foster Wallace

  Deportes, Atleta, Hombres

  "The String Theory" by David Foster Wallace, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2008.

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• The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but rather the conservation of the horse's enjoyment, suppleness and finesse during the performance, which calls for comparison with the finest ballet, or performance of an orchestra, or seeing a play by Racine, so moving is the sight of perfectly unisoned movements.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Art, Moving

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• Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.

  Harry Sinden

  Sports, Two, Goal

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• What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire when I was growing up, listening to names like Lord Finesse.

  John Cena

  Growing Up, Nice, Wwe

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• Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Stars, Dancer, Intuition

  Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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