This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. — James Ensor Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Nerd Girl Problem # 235 That unexplainable crush you have on fictional characters.” — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
“Enjoy that?" Tanith said with a little grin. Valkyrie grinned back, her eyes bright. "I keep telling Skulduggery he should get a… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover… — Gordon Gee Copy Share Image