#refined

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. ↗

— Mark Twain

#keeps #kind #parrot #person #quite

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#divinity #enlightenment #everyone #follow #here

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#actually #almost #anomaly #artists #because

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#down #end #end product #in other words #live

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#consciousness #directly #eye #mind #most

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

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#contentment #indolence #refined #simply

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#communion #effect #ideas #images #minds

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth