But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise… — William Safire Copy Share Image
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I think that's what so exquisite and unique about New York, it's a city that allows you to hone your craft as… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses,… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image