Quotes About Delicacy

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

And above them, a plume of thistledown caught the light of the stars.

After the endless disappointing cups of Nescafé, served as though the tasteless dissolving granules of instant coffee were a delicacy, Alexis felt no cup of coffee had ever tasted as powerful and delicious as this. It seemed that nobody had the heart to tell the Greeks that Nescafé was no longer a novelty – it was this old-fashioned thick and treacly fluid that everyone, including her, craved.

During the first few days a total of forty-three officers would visit the crime scene, looking for weapons and other evidence. In searching the loft above the living room, Sergeant Mike McGann found a film can containing a roll of video-tape. Sergeant Ed Henderson took it to the Police Academy, which had screening facilities. The film showed Sharon and Roman Polanski making love. With a certain delicacy, the tape was not booked into evidence but was returned to the loft where it had been found.

the animals on Jacob's Ladder are likely to be sensitive

Flour and yolk and cream are all coarse- of the earth. But sugar and air and vanilla are elements of the firmament. Avis used to tell her kids: Sweets should be an evanescence, cakes and pies represent minutes, cookies and milles-feuilles are seconds, meringues are moments.

Hello," I said softly, one hand over the butterfly wings that beat inside me.

It's not what's happened or what's about to happen; what's important is the sense of emotional uncertainty between the characters and the delicacy of the mutual trust being established.

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You know what scholars are like; no conscience at all when it comes to their own field, let alone a sense of social delicacy.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

Sólo lo triste, los depresivo, lo susceptible, lo delicado, lo quebradizo me conmovía y me parecía bello.

I don't want to destroy too many illusions. We're walking a tightrope. If you fall on one side it's no good, because we're showing too much. If you fall on the other side it's no good, because we're not showing anything and we look like arrogant jerks.

France Talk and Frogs' Legs

a single bright orange leaf lost its grip and wafted back and forth, gently falling to the ground.

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He had a special fondness for the moving parts of women, their wrists, their butterfly-shaped ankles, their shoulder blades like a swan's folded wings. In particular he treasured their knees, especially the back of them, where the skin was pale, milk-blue, with delicate fissures, little fine cracks, as in the most fragile old pieces of bone china. — John Banville, April in Spain (Hanover Square Press, 2021)

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.

A fragile thing, brittle-looking, an objet d' art, round and perfect: but for how long? From far enough out in orbit, one has no doubt that one could drop the Earth on the floor of night and break it. An urge arises to step softly, to speak quietly, so as to keep whoever might be carrying the pretty toy from being startled and fumbling it.

could just see the movements of Miss Winter's lashes. They crouched and quivered around the eye, like the long legs of a spider around its body.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

Uncrustables are man's greatest delicacy.