Quotes About Delicate

Because of the delicate structure of the ear, our hearing is vulnerable to damage. We're born with about sixteen thousand of the cochlear hair cells that allow us to pick up sounds, and these cells don't regenerate.

It seemed as if she went through life touching it scarcely at all

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them; but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.

The sea is softer than your delicate hands, and yet it can alter the shape of hard stones.

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

Reality is as thin as paper, girl, and as easily torn.

Such men as we are cannot fool with delicate stuff. Some men are meant to command and other must obey. There is a kind of death. Sometimes you much die before you can possess and command.

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

Love is like ice in the hands of children.

A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

A Fur Person must be adopted by catly humans, tactful, delicate, respectful, indulgent; these are fairly rare, though not as rare as might be supposed.

Your smile, delicate rumor of peace.

I am sincerely sorry, Ned said. There's a delicate matter we need to speak to you about. The blood went out of Straun's face. Who's dead now? Not that matter.

At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little tap-tappity.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

I'm sorry I thrust so much on you at once. I'm not known for subtlety. My delicate side wore away many years ago.

Trance is fragile.

He was woken by music. It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. There was in this music so much of the deepest enchantment of all his dreams and imaginings that he woke smiling in pure happiness at the sound.

The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world.

No, this was the kind of moment that made everything stop. You separated it from every other one, pressing the feeling to your heart, like a dried flower slipped between the pages of a beloved book. The moment was made of something fragile and delicate, yet it possessed the power to last forever.

When you were making pecan-smoked honey brisket at Cubby's, you had to cook the meats slowly and then, at just the right moment, finish them in the radiant salamander broiler to achieve that delicate caramelized crust.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.