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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
My big love is red wine and I once went to a vineyard in the Marlborough region of New Zealand, where we drank exquisite pinot noir.
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.
As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.
Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.
Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.
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 pleasures of the Mediterranean.
You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.
Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
I don't get to do that very often so to just have a completely free evening where your mind is relaxed enough to read a book is exquisite.
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.
What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!
Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.
To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.
However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.
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.
I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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 these be!
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.
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 between the macro and the micro.
The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.
