Fastidiousness Quotes

#1. Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

#3. A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#4. But if Abram bore his continual wanderings patiently, our fastidiousness is utterly inexcusable, when we murmur against God, if he does not grant us a quiet nest.

John Calvin

#5. Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#6. He saw that all the conditions of life had conspired to keep them apart; since his very detachment from the external influences which swayed her had increased his spiritual fastidiousness, and made it more difficult for him to live and love uncritically.

Edith Wharton

#7. Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.

Alice Meynell

#8. This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

Lorrie Moore

#9. Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

Mason Cooley

#10. Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

James Russell Lowell

#11. As the American poet, Marianne Moore, said: There is a great deal of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

William Strunk Jr.

#12. There is some shit I shall not eat,
and I will not kiss your fucking flag!

E. E. Cummings

#13. In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles

#14. I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started.

Ann Brashares

#15. Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

Benjamin Zander

#16. In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

Peter Blair Henry

#17. The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

Simon Baron-Cohen

#18. We don't just grow old. We become old when we stop growing.

Sue Ziang

#19. A woman's relationship with herself is mirrored everywhere in her life, but no place more than with her daughter.

Claire Fontaine

#20. Solve 90% of the problem as simply as you can, and then remove the other 10% from the problem requirements.

Marshall Rose

#21. He too was experimental and creatively disobedient, but he was still able to operate effectively in a fairly rigid hierarchy - something Americans do particularly well.

Robert L. O'Connell

#22. Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

Rachel Nichols

#23. One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#24. When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

Barbara Tuchman