I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes… — Rick Castro Copy Share Image
Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin;… — Douglas Kirkland Copy Share Image
It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest… — Norma Kamali Copy Share Image
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
“The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure… — Richard Mille Copy Share Image
The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
