Sharpness Quotes - Page 2

• Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Lasts, Edges

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• When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.

  Anais Nin

  Ojos, manos, pies

  Anais Nin (1977). "DELTA DE VENUS EROTICA"

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• Siempre me alegraré de que me dejen en paz en ese rincón encantador y desconocido, apartado de luchas, putrefacciones y tonterías; el rincón definitivo del azúcar y la tostada, donde las sirenas atrapan las ramas de los sauces y el corazón se abre a la agudeza de una flauta.

  Federico García Lorca

  Lucha, Corazón, Sirena

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• La necesidad es un bien amargo y odioso,
  porque no se comprenden sus virtudes;
  Sin embargo, muchas cosas, imposibles de pensar,
  han sido llevadas a la perfección por la necesidad.
  De ahí procede la audacia del alma,
  agudeza de ingenio y diligencia activa;
  Prudencia a la vez, y fortaleza da;
  y, si se toma con paciencia, repara nuestras vidas.

  John Dryden

  Taken, Giving, Perfection

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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• I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Creer, Amor Es, Luz

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• One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger.

  Eli Siegel

  Mean, Cutting, Knives

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• Haré la función de una piedra de afilar, que está a punto de devolver el filo al hierro, aunque ella misma sea incapaz de cortar.
  [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
  Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi].

  Horace

  Cutting, Iron, Vices

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• I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Real, Passion, Ideas

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• All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.

  Ansel Adams

  Writing, Quality, Etc

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• The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

  Johnny Marr

  Drinking, Focus, Healthy

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• Close your mouth,
  block off your senses,
  blunt your sharpness,
  untie your knots,
  soften your glare,
  settle your dust.
  This is the primal identity.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Tao Te Ching

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• Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.

  Wallace Stegner

  Teacher, Fall, Sight

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• To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially intellectual ossification. Itgets to the point. To me the dakini principle stands for the intuitive force.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Cutting, Men, Intellectual

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• One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Blessing, Age, Treasure

  Eleanor Roosevelt David Emblidge (1989). "Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Sus aclamadas columnas, 1936-1945".

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• The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.

  William Shakespeare

  Heat, Quarrels, Feels

  William Shakespeare (2011). “King Lear Thrift Study Edition”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.

  James Redfield

  Bello, Pensamiento, Color

  James Redfield (2009). “Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Men, Paris

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• Mientras pagaba el coche y seguía la larga cola de su esposa hasta la casa, se refugió en el reconfortante tópico de que los seis primeros meses son siempre los más difíciles en el matrimonio. Después de eso supongo que casi habremos terminado de restregarnos los ángulos el uno al otro", reflexionó; pero lo peor de todo era que la presión de May ya estaba incidiendo en los mismos ángulos cuya nitidez él más deseaba mantener...

  Edith Wharton

  Esposa, Largo, Casa

  Edith Wharton (2006). "The Age of Innocence" (La edad de la inocencia), p.148, OUP Oxford

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• Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Summer, Fall, Sadness

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• Los violines son los ingenios vivos, atrevidos e importunos, que se distinguen por las florituras de la imaginación, la agudeza de la réplica, las miradas de sátira, y llevan la parte superior en cada consorte.

  Richard Steele

  Imaginación, Musical, Violín

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). "The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume", p.279

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• You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a little bit limiting. With film, you have a lot more subtly, like with highlights and color. In terms of sharpness they (both formats) are very close; but in terms of nuance, of color and contrast, film is far superior.

  Michel Gondry

  Color, Quality, Littles

  El director de "Green Hornet", Michel Gondry, habla de las dificultades de Hollywood". Entrevista con Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. 19 de enero de 2011.

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• Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Would Be, Speech

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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• When you lose velocity off of your fastball, one thing that suffers is your off-speed pitches - the action on your off-speed pitches. Once you lose arm speed, it takes away rotation from your off-speed pitches. The rotation is what gives them the sharpness and the nastiness.

  Tim Hudson

  Giving, Suffering, Nastiness

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• We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Precaution, Caution, Thinness

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• Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger no one could say. Of the latter we never spoke, but it was always with us. Fear, constant companion of the peasant. Hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow should he relax. Despair, ready to engulf him should he falter. Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Dark, One Direction, Hands

  Kamala Markandaya (2000). "Néctar en un colador y lecturas relacionadas".

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