Exquisite Quotes

360 Exquisite quotes by 241 unique authors

Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and… — Dinty W. Moore
I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow. — Parker J. Palmer
God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand. — Henry Ward Beecher
When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would… — Eric Whitacre
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. — Arthur Machen
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction. — Bill Veeck
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion,… — John Robert Seeley
I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if it causes anyone… — Sarah J. Maas
We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision. — Steven Pinker
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are… — Carl Sagan
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley
Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on… — Lainie Kazan
The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed an exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program… — Jeanne Achterberg
There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well… — Jocelyn Murray
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly. — Roberto Benigni
My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for… — Elizabeth Streb
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as… — Alfred de Musset
We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no… — Deepak Chopra
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. — James Ensor
Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the… — Edith Wharton
Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged. — Peter De Vries
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with… — Thomas B. Macaulay

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