Quotes About Refinement

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. Good is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a common good! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

Tout ce qu'il y avait de plus fin.

I wish I could be elegant.

On February 19th, Dr. Collip found that he was unable to refine the extract by his method and was unable to keep up his supply to the wards. During the following six weeks, or longer, no extract was available for clinical tests. I believe the reason for this to be that Collip, wishing to keep his process a secret, had not kept careful records.

I witnessed the transformation of Melania from gold plate into twenty-four karat gold. I believed she had the heart to match.

What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are still the best-dressed.

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.

I think you can improve on everything; you're never perfect.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

I'm not a writer, but I'm very good at editing. That's my specialty. I can read something and tell you everything that's wrong with it and what's great about it and what needs to change, but it's hard for me to organize my thoughts.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Open this book to a random page. With a pencil, mark any word or phrase that you think does not contribute to the meaning of a passage or chapter. 2. Pick another page. As an exercise, imagine that you have been assigned to cut 10 percent. Mark the candidates for deletion.

If you goal is to achieve precision and concision, begin by pruning the big limbs. You can shake out the dead leaves later.

La elegancia no consiste en el exceso de adornos, ni en la profusión de alhajas.

Good taste is always an asset.

In silence our speech patterns are refined because silence fosters a self-awareness that enables us to choose more truly the words that we say.

Worship helps us to get rid of a lot of life's spiritual and natural frustrations. Through worship God brings to us a wholeness of body, mind and spirit. God is refining our understanding of true worship. True worship comes from the heart, in love and adoration unto the Lord.

Charis disapproves of crass words like shit. Roz has offered poop , but Charis rejected it as too babyish. Her alimentary canal products? Tony has suggested. No, that sounds too coldly intellectual, said Charis. Her Gifts to the Earth.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.

Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!