Elegance Quotes - Page 11

• There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.

  Paul Weller

  Culture, States, British

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are so beautiful and elegant and so apparently purposeful, they could only have been made by an intelligent designer. But [Charles] Darwin provided a simpler explanation. His way is a gradual, incremental improvement starting from very simple beginnings and working up step by tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Powerful, Intelligent

  Source: inters.org

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• I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.

  Volker Bertelmann

  People, Understanding, Style

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The tailoring may be a softer, more draped, but I don't believe it's any less smart. For sure it feels more relaxed, it's a different kind of elegance, but I'd never call it casual.

  Patrick Grant

  Smart, Believe, Different

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and elegance.

  Zendaya

  Class, Pieces, Way

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• [ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller aspect of the film and it's not all that complicated of a story and there's a simple elegance to it. I liked that. It is also driven by a really strong romance and ordinary men doing extraordinary things. I love that.

  Chris Pine

  Strong, Simple, Men

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• So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

  Robert Haugen

  Arrogance, Triumph, Certain

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 148, 1999.

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• I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

  Laz Alonso

  Wise, Pieces, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

  Tom Piazza

  New Orleans, Cities, Refinement

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• The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Dog

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• ...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Numbers, Feelings

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• Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

  Alice Munro

  Class, Attractive

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.180, Vintage

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• Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

  Molly O'Neill

  Planning, Backbone, Understated

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• I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lying, Clothes, Soul

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• I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, People, Ashes

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• I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

  Aaron Levie

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Hands, Comic Book

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• You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Mistake, Clothes, Labels

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• It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The elegance of a mathematical formula is that it explains a phenomenon beautifully, with no parts left over. In design, elegance is more readily perceived as a property of product than of process. If we had more elegant theories, we might look to design for more than elegance.

  Ralph Caplan

  Design, Important, Might

  Ralph Caplan (2006). “Cracking the Whip: Essays on Design and Its Side Effects”, Fairchild Books

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• Suppose we took a thousand negatives...
  combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.

  Berenice Abbott

  Past, Cities, Curiosity

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• True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Art, Victory, Moral

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

  Joyce Stranger

  Lying, Cat, Grace

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• The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Men, Crowds

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• I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Ideas, May

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• ... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.

  Roger McGuinn

  Music, Heart, Wine

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