I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he… — Emma Willard Copy Share Image
Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood… — Nadia Gamel Copy Share Image
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To me that really would be the essence of kindness, to have one's awareness so developed and refined that you could tell… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the… — Theodore T. Munger Copy Share Image
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled… — George Will Copy Share Image
I think that we have refined greatly our notions of sovereignty in the EU. Its members consider themselves to be sovereign governments,… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized.… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls… — William Morris Copy Share Image
In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Real music will make you more and more refined. It will become more and more silent. In fact, real music will help… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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