Best 59 quotes in «elegant quotes» category

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Cats are always elegant.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.

Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin

No elegant woman follows fashion slavishly.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

True simplicity is elegant.

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

"We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people.

Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner.

An elegant behavior, an elegant look, an elegant word, an elegant posture, an elegant idea, they are all moonlight, mysterious and magical, calming and peaceful!

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

Beauty of office, is profession in place

Anyone watching her would have thought her cold, indifferent, but this was the only way she knew to tackle her deepest troubles, to shoo them aside as if they were a cloud of summer gnats, and deal with the task at hand brusquely and efficiently. Hannah always thought of it as her mother's Englishness, that ability to equalize problems so that a scuffed shoe and an impending disaster were almost equally distasteful, but both were born with aplomb.

Design your sensual lifestyle down to the last detail. Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show that you have absolute respect for yourself and your life.

Elegance is a personality.

Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!

I told a friend of mine that my ambition was now to design my lifestyle around food. He made funny remarks about it and laughed it off. But it is what I'm sincerely aiming for.

Connection isn't elegant, or precise, or rational. But it's our fate to be bound up with one another, isn't it. We are all born insufficient, and must look to others to supplement our strength. That is no weakness, it is the first condition of human life.

I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!

A beautiful view accords most with an elegant soul!

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.

I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn’t picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network.

[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.

It was inelegant, but what was not when taking a hostage?

Rose is not the prettiest flower, neither water lily or petunia nor magnolia! An elegant soul is the prettiest flower on earth!

Sometimes simplicity and elegance are indistinguishable from each other.

Theory is relevant to you because it shows you a new, simpler, and more elegant side of computers, which we normally consider to be complicated machines. The best computer designs and applications are conceived with elegance in mind. A theoretical course can heighten your aesthetic sense and help you build more beautiful systems.

This is God's beauty! The Elegant nature of Esther, The Meek nature of Moses, The Pius nature of Paul, The Passionate nature of Peter, The Just nature of Jesus and then The wise nature of you!

To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!

We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.