Delicate Things Quotes

• It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

  Raymond Chandler

  People, Language, Educated

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.35, Grove Press

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• ¿Por qué nosotros, tan adictos en general a lo gigantesco, no habríamos de tener por fin algunas pequeñas obras de arte, algunos poemas breves, piezas musicales breves [...], algunas cosas íntimas, de voz baja y delicadas en nuestro mundo, en su mayor parte enorme y rugiente y deslumbrante?

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Art, Roaring, Pieces

  Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

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• I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Two, Abuse

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

  Jules Renard

  Flower, Fall, Bird

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

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• It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

  Vera Farmiga

  Media, People, Want

  "BATES MOTEL Season 3: Vera Farmiga and Co-Showrunner Carlton Cuse". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 16, 2015.

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• When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.

  Robert Graves

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). "Poemas completos", Carcanet Pr

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• A veces algo se vuelve mucho mejor. Es como un puzzle . No se puede forzar un ladrillo redondo en un cuadrado. Es algo delicado. Tienes que dejar que la canción decida.

  Oh Land

  Song, Squares, Bricks

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• So, it's a delicate thing, but at the same time our producers and writers are very much aware of the potential downfall that could ensue so I think they're going to be very careful about how they do that. At the same time I don't think they want to leave the characters in the same holding pattern that they've been in for a while. I think that they're all trying to put the characters in a different situation.

  Emily Deschanel

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  "Emily Deschanel habla de Bones: Season 2". Entrevista con Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. 26 de septiembre de 2007.

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• People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Beautiful, Past, People

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.

  Stephen King

  Genre Is, Horror Genre, Psychologist

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• So when you're talking about lyrics in the context of music, it's not just about what the words mean, and what you were thinking about when you wrote it. It's not cognitive in that same way. It's almost like music turns words into touch, which is hard to describe, like the feeling of your shirt on your back. It's a pretty delicate thing to try to put into words. You just feel it.

  Mirah

  Media, Pensar, Hablar

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight.

  Peter Woo

  Doe, Judgment, Delicate

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

  Johnnie Cochran

  Maps, Guides, Opening

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• Un corazón grande es a la vez torpe y delicado; no se protege ni se esconde. Sobresale, como la fontanela de un bebé, por donde se ve latir el alma.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Baby, Heart

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.159, Anchor

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• It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

  Raymond Chandler

  Baseball, Communication, Player

  Raymond Chandler (1995). “Later Novels & Other Writings”

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• To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.

  Whitney Houston

  Perfect, Scary, Trying

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• The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Character, Evil, Imagination

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• En otras palabras, las preguntas que merece la pena hacerse no proceden de otras personas, sino de la naturaleza, y en su mayor parte son cosas delicadas que se ahogan fácilmente con el ruido de la vida cotidiana.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  People, Everyday, Asking

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1998.

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• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

  Charles Dickens

  Memories, Husband, Men

  'Little Dorrit' (1857) bk. 1, ch. 24 (Flora Finching)

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• I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.

  Francesca Woodman

  Accomplishment, Leaving, Trying

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• The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

  Sydney Pollack

  People, Working Together, Directors

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• Porque el liberalismo es algo delicado. Abarca tantas cosas -gobierno constitucional, elecciones democráticas, libertad de culto, derechos civiles, libre comercio- que lo consideramos intemporal y universal. Pero el liberalismo surgió en un lugar y un tiempo reales, como una llama que ha vacilado en diversas épocas, y puede apagarse.

  Russell Shorto

  Real, Pensamiento, Llamas

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• Gracias", le dijo Skulduggery. "Me temo que estaba a punto de empezar a insultarme". "No podía permitirlo", dijo ella. "Tu ego es algo frágil y delicado". "¿Lo ves? Usted me entiende.

  Derek Landy

  Ego, Insulting, Said

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