Pared Quotes

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

Ezra Pound

#2. I'd bet on Armageddon before the government any day.

Joe Hart

#3. 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

#4. The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886.

Jeffery Deaver

#5. 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

#6. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive. Worldviews

Ravi Zacharias

#7. And our dreams,
with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair.

Denise Levertov

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

Hilary Mantel

#11. The Misbegotten had, in the last year, been pared to a sliver of itself. They had lost so many brothers and sisters that those who remained could have drowned in the ashes of those who had died.

Laini Taylor

#12. 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

#13. So there were people who got up at noon, pared their toenails, and sat naked in hotel rooms without regarding each day as an apocalypse. Amazing! If someone had burst into my room and found me naked and paring my nails, I would have died of shock. Or would I? Maybe I was stronger than I thought.

Erica Jong

#14. The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

Allyson Felix

#15. I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

Diane Lane

#16. He still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did everything she leaned on instantaneously decay?..

Gustave Flaubert

#17. 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

#18. Once the industry has been pared to its essence and its essentials, once we determine what matters most and needs protection, once we find the means to support that work, then journalism can grow again.

Jeff Jarvis

#19. The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

John Dufresne

#20. My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.

Brandy Norwood

#21. She was curious, and she could be untoward. But she was dutiful. She was pared to fit.

Jill Lepore

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

Wendell Pierce

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Few techniques are so successful, lady and gentlemen, as the one where you boggle the target's mind, freeze him with greed, then blitz him.

Stephen King

#28. Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look."
"I don't have an I'm-planning-something look."
"Yeah, you totally do. Your eyebrows knit together and your lips press together and - "
"Do you have a pen?" she asked him.

Rick Riordan

#29. An artist is an explorer.

Henri Matisse

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

Joan Collins

#31. Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

Keith Miller

#33. 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

#34. 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