#delicacy

…how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us. And someone -a father, a lover, someone- able to take us by the hand and find that river -imagine it, invent it- and put us on its stream, with the lightness of one only word, goodbye. This, really, would be wonderful. It would be sweet, life, every life. And things wouldn’t hurt, but they would get near taken by stream, one could first shave and then touch them and only finally be touched. Be wounded, also. Die because of them. Doesn’t matter. But everything would be, finally, human. It would be enough someone’s fancy -a father, a lover, someone- could invent a way, here in the middle of the silence, in this land which don’t wanna talk. Clement way, and beautiful. A way from here to the sea. ↗

— Alessandro Baricco

#lightness #love #poetry #profound #river

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation. ↗

— Walter Murch

#applies #delicacy #doing #editing #film

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #associations #case #complexity #delicacy

Her beauty was a divine delicacy that I could only hold within my dreams. I tested my dream of her beauty, and I whispered her grace to the angels. The sounds of heaven replied back to me, telling me that her beauty transcended not only my dreams, but even heaven. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#delicacy #beauty

I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue. ("The Accursed Cordonnier") ↗

— Bernard Capes

#virtue #nature

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#great #himself #man #only #probably

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#complexity #consists #delicacy #evolution #formation

True delicacy is not a fragile thing. ↗

— James Broughton

#fragile #fragile thing #thing #true

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks! ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beyond #colour #delicacy #equally #lovely

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way. ↗

— Todd English

#chicken #delicacy #elegant #more #presented