All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.
We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.
Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by competition have driven this evolution to a state of high refinement such that today's athletes have a very specialized approach to training at the elite levels.
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.
You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.
The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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 clothes.
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect. '
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
