#refine

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#conscience #deep #deep down #down #even

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 artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. ↗

— James Joyce

#artist #behind #beyond #creation #existence

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

— Paul Tournier

#more #our #refined #subtle #vulnerable

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#hearing #helped #i #invent #makes

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#construction #program #refinement #sequence #steps

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. ↗

— George Saunders

#conduit #damaged #even #get #heightened

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#just #people #play #refine #respond

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it. ↗

— James Ellroy

#acclaim #built #chance #created #critical

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#cultivated #dainty #filtered #fine #fingertips