Quotes About Refinement

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

Even perfection has room for improvement.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

I'm constantly looking for perfection.

I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

It's a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Nail it, and it's astounding how exciting simplicity can be.

The manner of employing the leisure time is always an index of a people's culture. The Tamils of old had their own pastimes which reveal at once their rustic simplicity and their notable refinement (Pillay 1969: 326-327)

How can one scandalize a maitre d'hotel? Such a man has seen it all before. And if one did succeed in subjecting him to scandal, I don't believe his face would express his condition.

Women lose their delicacy and refinement, when they are compelled night and day to haggle with their destiny over things pitifully small, and for this they are blamed by those whom their toil supports.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

A cat is never vulgar.

Even when low-brow comedy ruled, I ensured my lines were not vulgar.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

I don't do vulgarity, I prefer to talk about nice things.

Vulgarity, in my mind, is not cool.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.

I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.