Quotes About Refinement

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.

The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness—traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life.

a lady to her fingertips.

Men's minds need a simple truth, an answer which delivers them from their questions, a gospel, a tomb. The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety.

But then the mist of battles passes away, and the sound of the daily conflict no longer hurtles in the air, and a generation arises skilled with the skill of peace, and refined with the refinement of civilization, yet still remembering the old world, still appreciating the old life, still wondering at the old men, and ready to receive, at the hand of the poet, a new telling of the old tale.

Poetry is a controlled refinement of sobbing.

My writing style has changed dramatically over the years, growing increasingly clean and exact. I like to think that I'm still improving -- that each book I write is a new personal best.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Transformation comes not by adding things on but by removing what didn't belong in the first place.

A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes ... has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

I always want to improve in all my facets of the game, whether it's the receiving or blocking aspects.

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.

You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off.

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

It's important to learn from your mistakes and then to refine.

I don't have any problem with criticism. It's an incentive to refine myself.

There's always things you can refine and polish.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.