Quotes About Refinement

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

I have plenty of improving to do.

You can't buy class.

I like to do things that are classic.

European style is classic, with its own color, and to me, it always feels chic.

A pearly white shade for a tux would look classy and glamourous.

I want my fans to look classy, not trashy.

Early episodes of TV I compare to out-of-town plays. You can make them better. You don't have all the time in the world, but you have time to make them better and improve them as you go along.

There's really no comparison to me. I try to add every level to my game.

You've got to be an editor in order to be a good composer.

As far as accessories are concerned, I think it is always best to be as minimalist as possible.

Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald's, not like a hot dog, not like a French fry. It's very high-class cooking in Japan.

A sweater around your neck is always a great idea.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

In the meantime, Gesner kept busy perfecting kerosene. The crude coal oil that emerged from his stills smoked badly when it burned and smelled worse. After treating the oil with acids and processing it with lime, he succeeded in creating a kerosene that burned, he reported, "with a brilliant white light [and] without smoke or the naphthalous odor so offensive in many hydrocarbons having some resemblance to this but possessing very different properties.

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.

We purge our bloodstream of its baser elements.

A wine cellar requires order, forethought and good taste,' the old man used to say. 'These are the virtues that made Britain great.

A wine cellar requires order, forethought and good taste

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.

invention inevitably followed a four-step sequence: Awareness of an unfulfilled need; Recognition of something contradictory or absent in existing attempts to meet the need, which Usher called an "incomplete pattern"; An all-at-once insight about that pattern; and A process of "critical revision" during which the insight is tested, refined, and perfected.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.