Quotes About Refinement

I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.

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

Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.

Civilization begins with distillation

Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.

Pure gold does not fear furnace.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

The rules of syntax and intonation and words matured over time into the system we have today because they were progressively refined by use and the forge of survival and reproduction - not because the brain got big and complicated for some other reason, and all of a sudden we discovered we could now manipulate symbols as well.

the only thing with less character than Chardonnay is wainscoting.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart.

Distinction without a difference.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Everything can always be done better than it is being done.

given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea. One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.

Refine your longing here, in the small silver music of her preparations, under the low-built shelter of repentance.

Mallaby Road, Harrow, as the Saint discovered, was one of those jolly roads in which ladies and gentlemen live. Lords and ladies may be found in such places as Mayfair, Monte Carlo, and St Moritz; men and women may be found almost anywhere; but Ladies and Gentlemen blossom in their full beauty only in such places as Mallaby Road

But though the parts of language are standardized and in a sense mass-produced, they achieve the maximum of variety, individuality, and autonomy. No technology has yet approached this degree of refinement: the intricate mechanisms of the so-called Nuclear Age are extremely primitive in comparison, for they can utilize and express only a narrow segment of the human personality divorced from its total historic expression.

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

There are major benefits to building a game once and improving it over a long period of time based on user feedback and behavior. It's kind of depressing to have to build a game once, take all the user feedback, and then spend the next 3 years building another game.

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

The real world is a book in bad need of an editor

La décadence est la grande minute où une civilisation devient exquise.

Passion is not well bred.