Refines Quotes

One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

Manners are of more importance than laws.

Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock.

I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

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.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

Sure, science involves trial and error.

Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.