Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice… — Abraham Hayward Copy Share Image
Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems… — William Montagu-Pollock Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have… — Heloise Copy Share Image
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it. — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview. — Morinosuke Kawaguchi Copy Share Image
A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters'… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
