Elegant Quotes
I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.
There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.
Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.
On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.
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.
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.
I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.
Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.
People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn.
Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.
My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe.
It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.