Quotes About Refined

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

The violence described in the Old Testament was endemic to the ancient Near East and remains endemic to much of the world today. Although our refined Western sensibilities recoil from these violent passages, in fact the Old Testament is to be credited for presenting the human condition in all its starkness

Good design, when done well, should be invisible.

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She'd become a woman. An elegant woman.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refin'd to please;With too much spirit to be e'er at ease;With too much quickness ever to be taught;With too much thinking to have common thought.You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

I think my style is probably more of a classic look.

I'm really pretty classic.

I like to think of myself as classy.

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

There, you see? I didn't curse. Don't you agree that I handled the situation demurely?

Overall, I view the design of the Catholic Mass as something like a polished gem, refined over time to a state of great beauty—if you know what you are looking at,

The modern geek is more than just a refined version of the stereotypical movie geek from the '80s.

My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to.

The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

For my wedding, I wanted a minimalist look.