Quotes About Refinement

I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.

I try to work on the small things.

The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there, you know?

I always listen to what I can leave out.

Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden.

practice makes better

The Jefferson is such a dignified hotel / There is no such thing.

A crude culture makes a coarse people, and private refinement cannot long survive public excess. There is a Gresham's law of culture as well as of money: the bad drives out the good, unless the good is defended.

So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of comedy.

Suffrage was attractive to many immigrant daughters, who recognized that race-based benefits of feminine refinement and male protection were white-only and never intended for them.

Marriage is not about our ultimate happiness," she replied. "That is a lie from the devil. Marriage was made to refine us, to grow our character. It exposes the worst in us so that we see the need for humility, grace, forgiveness, and, most of all, our need for Jesus in our marriage.

This is not LA, people. We shine instead of sparkle, we smile and bless their hearts instead of giving the finger. Like my mama taught me about wearing jewelry: Put on everything you want to wear, and then take one thing off.

There's money, and then there's class.

In most projects, the first system built is barely usable. It may be too slow, too big, awkward to use, or all three." Cutler

Vivo in una solitudine selvaggia e raffinata, misera e opulenta, dove le passioni ardono s'inceneriscono riardono incessantemente.

Maybe I could paint flats or print programs or something?" She wants to say How unlike you, but she resists. Aside from her husband, she believes her brother-in-law to be one of the most selfish and self-centered men she has ever met. If one afternoon with a baby can have such a refining influence on A.J., imagine what could happen to Daniel when the baby is born.

She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mounting a carriage

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

If we live without an eternal perspective, earthly trials become larger than life. Without the hope of heaven or the sense of the importance of a growing character and refinement, there is nothing to prepare for, nothing to look forward to; it is like practicing and practicing but never getting to actually play a game. Life gets boring, tedious, and tiresome.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own