Delicate Quotes

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Good, Keep

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Rodney Dangerfield

Time, Acting, Himself

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Ovid

Death, Idea, Worried

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.
Henry Rollins

High, Break, Meet

No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres

Funny, Time, Respect

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Good, Different, Rather

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Josh Billings

Job, Him, Forgive

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.
Jerry Seinfeld

Funny, Explosive, Subjects

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid

Often, Roses, Sharp

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.
Gordon Ramsay

Insecure, Last, Souls

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
Marilyn vos Savant

Freedom, America, Perfect

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm

Between, Balance, Popularity

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
David Hume

Beauty, Vain, Reasoning

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle

Power, Poetry, Words

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Jessica Savitch

Good, Balance, Public

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
Alan Rickman

Time, Children, Small

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
Jose Marti

Life, Trust, Future

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjold

Strength, Law, Soul

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!
Harry Connick, Jr.

Find, Fact, Miserable

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
Maynard James Keenan

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Jeanne Moreau

Time, Acting, Himself

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.
Amanda Seyfried

Work, Team, Treat

True strength is delicate.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
Daisaku Ikeda

Heart, Human, Mechanical

I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.
Emeril Lagasse

Kids, Might, Baby

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
Natalie Wood

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
Lewis Thomas

Nature, Trying, Country

I'm feeling a little delicate.
Aung San Suu Kyi

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
Anthony Trollope

Strong, Found, Grow

I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.
Alison Sweeney

Time, Good, Business

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