I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.
Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.
The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.
Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.
I run down to meet Floriana who is breathless from her hike. She stops in the road, the last light at her back. Prickles of rain cling to her unkerchiefed, loosened hair, capturing in her the flickering russet frame of it. Topaz almonds are her eyes, lit tonight from some new, old place, from some exquisitely secret oubliette, which she must often forget she possesses. We talk for a minute and Barlozzo passes us by like a boy too shy to speak to two girls at once.
Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
Photography is about being exquisitely present.
Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.
I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt. . . It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to accomplish the most complicated and delicate of tasks. Many organic chemists viewing crystal structures of enzyme systems or nucleic acids and knowing the marvels of specificity of the immune systems must dream of designing and synthesizing simpler organic compounds that imitate working features of these naturally occurring compounds.
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.
