Refinement Quotes

145 quotes by 127 authors

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a… — Lynn Margulis
The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working… — Martin Puryear
Taste is an evolution and refinement of oneâ€™s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The… — Norma Kamali
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed… — Alice James
Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True refinement avoids anything… — J.R. Miller
Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is… — Curt Sachs
I am thrilled that DDLJ has beaten all records, Shah Rukh Khan and I share a close friendship that translates onto the screen. We have… — Kajol
I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique… — Catherine Malandrino
I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability. — H. L. Hunt
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections… — Mary Wollstonecraft
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk… — Gunter Grass
I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift… — Lee De Forest
As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to… — Trevanian
Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of oneâ€™s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...Thereâ€™ll be new fetishes forever. I feel… — Rick Castro
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within… — Eliot Noyes
In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring… — James Henry Hammond
Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be… — James Ellis
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour… — Samuel Johnson
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism… — Edmund Burke
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by… — Frederick William Faber

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