You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
Tough times don't define you, they refine you.
When you have defined yourself, circumstances don’t define you – they only refine you.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
Don't let the guilt of the past keep you from the victories of the future.
Motivation gets you going; Inspiration keeps you going.
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.
I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.
I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.
We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context.
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.
