In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy… — Champfleury Copy Share Image
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
[Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home. — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
“There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love.” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it,… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become… — Perrey Reeves Copy Share Image
The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
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