Quotes About Refinement

I've been a huge Cartier fan from my very early days.

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

Everybody needs an editor.

It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.

She is elegant rather than belle.

Elegance is elimination.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

in a world full of trends, i want to remain a classic

If you're blue and you don't know, Where to go to, why don't you go, Where fashion sits? Putting On The Ritz.

Even the master plan has room for improvement.

Fontenelle was the most civilized man of his time, and indeed of most times.

the first rule of art is exclusion: knowing what to leave out.

Do the same for flawed design.

More isn't better. Better is better.

People can come to me, and no matter how expert they are, I can virtually always see a way of doing something better.

The Royal Opera House? I once had the immense privilege of appearing there and was awed by the air of refinement of those seemingly ethereal beings who floated about in the highest echelons of musical accomplishment, effortlessly producing virtuoso performances in several different languages.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

The key to transforming your look with a collar is ensuring that it looks as if it's part of the dress, so there shouldn't be any skin visible underneath.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

As much as Gabri liked to refer to the elderly poet as the Labrador on the leg of life, she was indeed trained.

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.