Pared Down Quotes

#1. I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.

Jenny Slate

#2. The sharp light of the stars and moon sliced away her misconceptions and pared down their layers until the feelings that had always existed between them lay bare.

Katherine McIntyre

#3. Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.

Tatiana Maslany

#4. So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

Joan Collins

#5. In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

Mario Batali

#6. I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

Nate Berkus

#7. Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.

Adam Levine

#8. This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. It wasn't what I'd characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires. I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Today, I'm drawn to repurposing for so many reasons: It allows me to live a more financially pared-down and simple life in which it's possible to work a little bit less and live a little bit more.

Amanda Blake Soule

#11. Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Ezra Pound

#12. Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. The physicists are getting down to the nitty-gritty, they've really just about pared things down to the ultimate details, and the last thing they ever expected to happen is happening. God is showing through.

John Updike

#14. The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then it fell out of the sky. They climbed into it, left land behind, and floated out to sea.

Patricia A. McKillip

#15. Take ACTION! When we DO NOT take action, our potentiality becomes the soil that houses the seeds of our regret.

Steve Maraboli

#16. What makes people is not bone structure and eye color, but the force of their personalities. the years of experience painted on their faces.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#17. A sour religion is the devil's religion.

John Wesley

#18. I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.

Katherine Heigl

#19. Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Robert Duvall

#20. I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Iain Banks

#21. The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.

Shaquille O'Neal