Quotes About Refinement

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

I'm not somebody who can tell if the song is good enough to be pushed until I hear what it sounds like after all the bells and whistles are put on it.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

I don't like flashy things.

I think we always have to put forth music that's better than the last.

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential.

Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?

I tratti del viso del figlio le parvero la quintessenza raffinata di un procedimento casuale: un'interminabile fila di coincidenze che convergevano in un punto focale.

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.

Window treatments are like a nice suit - you want them to fit and the tailoring to be just right.

My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.

I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.

I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.

Wine is smart, sexy, and classy.

Wine gets better with time. So does art.

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

They treat my stuff like wine. It just gets better with time.

We check everything to make sure it is pure and of the highest quality. There is good wine and bad wine; we buy only the good wine.

You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.

Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.