There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate… — Mary McCormack Copy Share Image
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to pile on the midi rings! I like to play around with metals and pair delicate rings with chunkier… — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There are a lot of hackers today, you know, and they perform their work in such a filigreed and delicate manner and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“She felt raw, a painting that wasn't dry yet. One hard nudge and she'd smear all over the place.” — Ashley Herring Blake Copy Share Image
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of… — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do just comedy or just drama; sometimes, going back and forth you can get yourself in trouble which… — Mike Binder Copy Share Image
Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
