(180 quotes found)
“Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing…changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.”
Steve Maraboli
“Everything's been so overembellished, I think there's a move to a more clean, refined approach, although not like the minimalism of the '90s, ... having a sorbet after a heavy meal.”
George Sharp
“Stroke follow strokes, the sparkling ingot shines,/ Flows the red slag, the lengthening bar refines;/ Cold waves, immersed, the glowing mass congeal,/ And turn to adamant the hissing Steel.”
Erasmus Darwin
“The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.”
William Hazlitt
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
Albert Einstein
“This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.”
Stevie Smith
“As things get refined, we'll seek further input.”
Chris Foster
“It was so beautiful. Such extraordinary colors, classical, and refined and very structured as well. A superb collection.”
Catherine Deneuve
“The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack”
D.H. Lawrence
“She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot.”
Mark Twain