Quotes About Refinement

I love the finer things.

I always want to cut every single line, possibly, that is mine from the script. One of the first things I do on any script is to shred, shred and shred my lines.

I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.

A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.

I love recreating, and I love elevating - anything I do I want do ten times better every time.

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.

I have a tendency to overcut my movies.

We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology.

I love high tea, but I think it's very repetitive in terms of what's on the stand.

No one would say, 'Hey, I think this medicine works, go ahead and use it.' We have testing, we go to the lab, we try it again, we have refinement. But you know what we do on the last mile? 'Oh, this is a good idea. People will like this. Let's put it out there.'

When I'm menu-developing at Milk Bar, I'll go for weeks at a time where all I'm doing is testing out layer cakes or different cookies and testing out changes.

Brilliantine-assaulted hair

Like wine, coffee offers a path to sophistication.

Natural selection is an inanimate process, devoid of consciousness, yet is a tireless refiner, an ingenious craftsman.

The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug.

To see Snow Flower's mother eat that meat was something I'll never forget. She had been raised to be a fine lady and, as hungry as she was, she did not tear into the food as someone in my family might. She used her chopsticks to pull apart slivers of the pork and lift them delicately to her lips. Her restraint and control taught me a lesson I have not strayed from to this day. You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less that a cultivated woman.

The piece was like an elegant interrogation made of tangled yarn, a query from a well-dressed man in a casket, not yet dead. It proceeded slowly, like a careful equation, and then not: if x = y, if major = minor, if death equals part of life and life part of death, then what is the sum of the infinite notes of this one phrase? It asked, answered, reasked, its moody asking a refinement of reluctance or dislike.

Let us be elegant or die

but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.