#dainty

Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty. ↗

— Evan Davis

#biggest #boring #britain #characters #dainty

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#dainty #i #little #looked #turned

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#chefs #composed #dainty #deserted #devour

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#dainty #flock #sheep #thing #though

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#cultivated #dainty #filtered #fine #fingertips

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#lovely #melancholy #nothing #sweet

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#consider #dainty #european #i #more

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#chefs #dainty #delicate #every #insecure

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar. ↗

— Kesha

#because #chords #coin #dainty #feminine