Exquisite Quotes

360 Exquisite quotes by 241 unique authors

Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory… — Gabriele d'Annunzio
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With deft prose and… — Deanna Raybourn
Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it… — Jason Schwartzman
It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite… — David Suchet
The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature — Carl Sagan
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human… — Barbara Brown Taylor
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain. — Leigh Hunt
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world… — Ansel Adams
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little… — James Lane Allen
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge… — Bernard Malamud
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. — George Santayana
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were… — Mark Twain
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite… — Elizabeth David
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of… — Thomas Noon Talfourd
We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light! — Hafez
Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery and sensitivity. Redefining… — Michaela Angela Davis
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there.… — Diana Abu-Jaber
The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak… — Unknown Author
More seldom than not, the movies gives us exquisite sex and wholesome violence, that underscores our values. Every two child did. I will. — George W. Bush
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would… — Henry Ward Beecher
Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the… — Gretel Ehrlich
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten… — D. H. Lawrence

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241 authors contributed a total of 360 Exquisite Quotes, led by these top contributors: