Quotes About Delicate

Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

Nomad horsemen from central Asia, who depended on the 'delicate grassland ecology

By all accounts, my left foot has something very feminine about it. It's curvy, like Suzanne. The flesh is milky, and the skin is delicate just like the skin on Suzanne's temples, with the veins clearly marked in blue. The nails are pearly, the toes long and dainty like fingers. The instep has none of the unattractiveness so evident in other parts of my body. It has an elegance shared only with Suzanne.

It's so delicate, the light. And there's so little of it. The dark is huge. Just delicate needles, the light, in an endless night. And it has such a long way to go through such desolate space. So let's be gentle with it. Cherish it. So it will come again in the morning. We hope." 'Just Delicate Needles'—by Rolf Jacobsen (translated by Robert Hedin)

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.

It made me think of how thin the border was between attractive and not, and yet, if it was there, you didn't want to cross it.

For that he was a spirit too delicate To act their earthy and abhorr'd commands, Refusing their grand hests, they did confine him By help of their most potent ministers, And in their most unmitigable rage, Into a cloven pine; within which rift Imprisoned, he didst painfully remain. . . . Shakespeare. The Tempest.

Remember that the human brain is a very delicate organism, and it can be easily damaged.

Donna. Miniatures

she said very softly.

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living.

When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

I love my mystery, I love the abstract, fuyant world I live in as long as I don't begin my work, the forcing out of delicate, profound, vague, obscure, voluptuously wordless sensations into something you can seize on—perhaps never.

I love my mystery, I love the abstract world I live in, the delicate, profound, vague, obscure, voluptuously, wordless sensations I experience.

Une autre chose que j'ignorais, plus importante encore peut-être, c'est que j'étais d'une santé très délicate.

But this was reality, occluded and delicate.

Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and horny butterfly.

Il libro era uno di quelli che tengono avvinto un animo delicato e non lo lasciano più andare.

as thin as piss on a rock.

Awakening is remembering to enjoy. The more delicate the enjoyment, the greater the awakening.