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Exquisitely Quotes

Precision, sensitivity, and small perfect details

Humans are described here as exquisitely sensitive to status, while a reader pauses over a word chosen as exquisitely as a filmmaker frames a shot.

Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound...

Quotes by Steve Erickson

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create,...

Quotes by Stella McCartney

What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves are a new way to study the universe and are expected to have significant impact on astronomy and...

Quotes by Rainer Weiss

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Quotes by Langston Hughes

Ale Quotes

Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what we're dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.

Quotes by Kip Thorne

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

Quotes by Keith Henson

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

Quotes by James Geary

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

Quotes by James Boswell

An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any...

Quotes by Hugh Ross

Alone Quotes

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

Quotes by Eric Alterman

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Quotes by Duane Michals

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping...

Quotes by Dennis Prager

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological...

Quotes by Clive Barker

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately...

Quotes by Carolyn Porco

Appearances Quotes

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Quotes by Carl Sagan

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities...

Quotes by Brit Hume

An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics.

Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'exquisitely' describe in these quotes?
It's used for fine-tuned sensitivity to social status, for a writer choosing a word as exquisitely as a filmmaker chooses a shot, and for aphorisms being exquisitely formed like small servings of sushi.
Is there a quote comparing writing to filmmaking?
Yes, one describes reading as pausing over a word chosen exquisitely, the way a filmmaker chooses a shot, drawing a careful parallel between two different creative crafts.
Why would someone search for quotes with the word 'exquisitely'?
It's an elegant, less common word, so writers looking for a refined way to describe precision or beauty often search for real examples of it in use.
Does this page compare aphorisms to food?
One quote compares aphorisms to sushi, both being small, exquisitely formed portions that are hard to get enough of, a memorable way of describing concise writing.
What other pages complement this one?
For more on refined or graceful language, the Beautiful collection is a natural fit, and the Appearances quotes page covers a related but more visual angle.

The set closes on aphorisms compared to sushi — small, exquisitely formed, and impossible to have enough of, alongside our Beautiful collection.