#refined

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#beautiful #big #create #emotions #king

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#baroque #contemporary #epochs #expressions #findings

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#friendship #mechanism #oil #politeness #refined

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#healthy #idea #illness #making #man

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#good #indecent #mode #more #much

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#curiosity #developed #except #frequent #had

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ↗

— Laurence Stern

#brave #forgive #generous #how #human

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#aristocracy #background #chivalry #civilization #exalted

Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#bottles #calories #cans #carbohydrates #coke

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#more #our #refined #subtle #vulnerable