#exquisite

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #exquisitely #genius #hence #humour

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#international #international relations #matter #relations #subtle

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#beautiful #clothes #create #customer #design

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. ↗

— James Montgomery

#joys #last #more #past #too

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. ↗

— Duane Michals

#appears #deals #exquisitely #nothing #photography

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. ↗

— James Boswell

#every #every man #exquisitely #happy #man

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#become #books #companions #dearest #delights

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity. ↗

— William Safire

#especially #exquisite #feel #flatters #i

Some of her last words to me, Mason, were 'I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into yours.” I know she can’t be wrong. ↗

— Ella Frank

#exquisite #lena-o-donnell #mason-langley #life