Delicate Things Quotations

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.

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

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.

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.

Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight.

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

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.

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.

Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?

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