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Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry! -- Rick Riordan
Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status. -- Keith Henson
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. -- Duane Michals
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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. -- James Boswell
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. -- Carl Sagan
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. -- Langston Hughes
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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. -- James Geary
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. -- Eric Alterman
A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked store of our reading experience. -- Michel Faber
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
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. -- Kip Thorne
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 which are easily offended. -- Brit Hume
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, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. -- Stella McCartney
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 with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth. -- Dennis Prager
Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled. -- H. L. Mencken
Photography is about being exquisitely present. -- Joel Meyerowitz
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science -- Carl Sagan
Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone. -- Denise Chavez
I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely. -- Patrick Marber
The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me. -- Oscar Wilde
The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. -- Nancy Mairs
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. -- Alexander Pope
Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina. -- Dahlia Lithwick
And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely. -- Virginia Woolf
It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing. -- Bernard Darwin
The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer -- Stella McCartney
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching. -- Phillips Brooks
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. -- Margaret Halsey
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. -- Mark Twain
The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit. -- Kathleen Dowling Singh
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it. -- Toni Morrison
What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race. -- Dahlia Lithwick
I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ. -- Brigham Young
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world. -- Henry Fielding
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. -- Michel de Montaigne
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. -- Oscar Wilde
Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time. -- D. H. Lawrence
Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written. -- Daniel Gilbert
I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments. -- Cinda Williams Chima
The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex. -- James Mackintosh
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either. -- William Jones
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother ... -- Hannah More
... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on. -- Brenda Ueland
Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged. -- Leonard Maltin
So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and crew of The Black Witch. -- Micheal Rivers
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity? -- E. O. Wilson
I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet. -- Meryl Streep
You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave. -- William Finnegan
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive. -- Alton Tobey
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen. -- Edward Young
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life. -- Michael Behe
[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era. -- Jay Roach
Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart. -- Eknath Easwaran
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them. -- George Will
We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a question of 'critical mass.' It's always about critical connections. -- Grace Lee Boggs

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