#delicate

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#guide #like #map #opening #road

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how. ↗

— Holly Near

#been #best #delicate #entertainer #good

True strength is delicate. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#strength #true #true strength

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. ↗

— Ovid

#death #delicate #frown #idea #killed

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

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#books #call #children #clue #containing

When a new generation watches the films, people might mention that it has improved their lovemaking. I guess it's because it isn't threatening. It was very sweet and delicate. ↗

— Sylvia Kristel

#delicate #films #generation #guess #i

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ailments #cats #creatures #delicate #different

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#delicate #delicate balance #gain #good #news

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church. ↗

— Giles Gilbert Scott

#case #church #delicate #endeavour #every