Quotes About Refinement

This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

Blood, flesh: what were these? Coarse, brutish victuals, the things that dogs ate. With his more refined palate, Peveral Othman could imbibe a more subtle substance.

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

Carrie would always have him anyway, he thought, the way she had him now. Spring smells of dirt and rainwater rose from the ground. Love was a mixed business. As in building, he couldn't afford the refinement he desired. He needed too much. Carrie had been his great romance. He hadn't been hers. With Susan it wasn't romance, exactly. It was home.

It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For

La scrittura era informale, come a voler confondere le idee, ma rivelava buon gusto e raffinatezza e ne fu piacevolmente sorpreso. Si rivolse Koremitsu: – Chi abita nella casa sul lato ovest? Ne avete sentito parlare? «Ecco che ci risiamo», pensò l'altro, ma si guardò bene dall'esprimerei propri pensieri.

Todo en la vida lo ha hecho alguien antes, al menos lo que vale la pena hacer. El truco está en tratar de hacerlo un poco mejor.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is.

the truth is that over the years the calibrations have grown so fine that new equipment was necessarily developed, given how decimal places kept being added, the measuring process itself evolving into a kind of test of our mettle, to see how far we could go in realizing an ultimate standard.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

Culture makes all men gentle.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

That's always my mentality. There's always room for improvement.

I can always improve in the ring; I can improve on the mic. I can consistently keep improving.

There's always room for improvement. That's my mindset.

I have that mindset going into anything I do, there's always room to improve, you can always do better.

Correction of the correction of the correction of the correction.

Even on a personal level art is a form of heightened living. It gives greater pleasures, it consumes faster. It stamps the features of its servants with the signs of imaginary and spiritual adventures, and it produces, even in the most cloister-like atmosphere, a certain fastidiousness, an over-refinement, an exhaustion and curiosity of the nerves, in a way even a life of the most outrageous passions and delights could scarcely effect it.

On a personal level, too, art is life intensified: it delights more rapidly; it engraves the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventure on the countenance of its servant and in the long run, for all the monastic calm of his external existence, leads to self-indulgence, over refinement, lethargy, and a restless curiosity that a lifetime of wild passions and pleasures could scarcely engender.

Take a plain-Jane rock and polish it, and you'll find a gem.

But where Ma saw only old books gathering dust and smelling of mildew, I found comfort and possibility. Other worlds were within my grasp—better worlds full of rewarded ambition, refinement, and eloquence. I clung to them as a pilgrim whose faith is proportional to the extremity of their need clings to a relic or a prayer.

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity,' Madame added, turning her back on them. 'And therefore, nothing more refined.