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"She was a lovely actress and I admired her very much. She was a very delicate and elegant lady". (Remembering her time working with Lillian Gish in The Cobweb (1955)) (2004)

- Fay Wray
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"It was people standing up, not even winning, just standing up, and it became a delicate love story with two pretty weak people making one whole person, meaning Sylvester and Talia (Shire)." BY, reassessing the success of "Rocky"

- Burt Young

(on Jessica Lange) She is like a delicate fawn, but crossed with a Buick.

- Jack Nicholson

(on Jane Fonda) Jane`s person is more specific than most of us. She`s well disciplined and knows what she wants and where she`s going and works objectively to apply all her information to that intention. With Jane, the character and force is embodied in her persona and it`s a lovely, delicate and self-deprecating human.

- Donald Sutherland

I do have a delicate side.

- Michelle Rodriguez

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

- Natalie Wood

(on Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)): It was full of traps; it was a delicate tightrope assignment. I found that very interesting. Robert Aldrich gave it a very special style, a kind of dark, glittering style which fascinated me.

- Olivia de Havilland

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children`s lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

- Tipper Gore

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that`s the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you`re like that. They just want you to be normal.

- Alfonso Cuarón

Movies either work or they don`t work and they`re either funny or they`re not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

- Ivan Reitman

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

- Robert Stevenson

I know that the Germans are very unhappy about these withdrawals. The Koreans are going to be equally unhappy. How can we withdraw troops from Korea while engaged in a delicate negotiation with the North Koreans? And there`s a country that really does have weapons of mass destruction.

- Richard Holbrooke

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

- Henry James

Two days of urgent and delicate diplomacy face the president.

- John King

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

- Robert Bridges

It is hard to find a stylish yet functional cell phone case. I have designed a line that will accessorize any outfit, whether casual or dressy. Some of the cases can be used as a small purse, and have delicate embellishments inspired by my Celtic collection,

- Nicole Miller

a very powerful, although delicate, chemistry between the way Dr. Katz, Miss Britten and I work. I`m committed to this process. I`m committed to `Starting Over.`

- Iyanla Vanzant

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

- Al Mau
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The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

- Alex Muxo

When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over

- Andy Ritchie

(The pope said he was) saddened at the tragic death ... faithful and heroic servant of the state, who, in carrying out the delicate mission that had been given to him, didn`t hesitate to sacrifice his life.

- Anju Bobby George

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.

- Ann Kjera

I am pretty comfortable with using tools very carefully. But no doubt about it, this is going to be a very delicate task. But as I say, a simple one.

- Barbara Harsha

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head

- Quentin Crisp

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

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

- Albert Guerard

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

- David K Shipler

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

- Janet Watson

Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.

- Patrick Leigh Fermor

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.

- Richard Hofstadter