Elegance Quotes - Page 13

• I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Long, Admirer, Helen

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.

  Pierre L. van den Berghe

  Book, Achievement, Exceptional

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• Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

  Charles Gounod

  Limits, Breathe, Form

  Marie Anne de Bovet, Charles Gounod (1891). “Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works”

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• Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne, the walking in Provence, the taste, the passion for literature, the libraries, the beautiful editions, remaking the world in a set of hours around a table and a bottle of wine. Talking without really saying nothing, just for the pleasure of talking. The museums, the theatres, the elegance, the delicacy, the heritage of the Illustration, a humanistic philosophy. The balance we got between a nordic rigor and a latin savoir-vivre, the insolence and the freedom.

  Clemence Poesy

  Beautiful, Latin, Philosophy

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• I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.

  Victoria Beckham

  Age, Privilege, True You

  Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss.

  Maynard Ferguson

  Night, Missing, Band

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• I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?

  Claude Shannon

  Interesting, Problem, Application

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• Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a great deal; but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.

  Norm MacDonald

  Believe, Perfection, Grace

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• The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance - or at least, let's say less chaste.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Sexy, Strong, Italian

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

  Lisa Randall

  Consistency, Belief, Hypothesis

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• Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.

  Beverley Nichols

  Beautiful, Summer, Flower

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• Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about

  Salvatore Ferragamo

  Fashion, Talking, Shoes

  Salvatore Ferragamo, Victoria and Albert Museum (1987). “Salvatore Ferragamo, the art of the shoe, 1927-1960”

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• Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fun, Clothes, Significant

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• Elegance and beauty have been banished.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Has Beens

  "Brilliant designer Yves Saint Laurent dies" by Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. June 2, 2008.

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• That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

  Muriel Barbery

  Real, People, Hedgehogs

  "L'Élégance du hérisson (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2008.

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• Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Dream, Men, Style

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• Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Fashion, People, Study

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.309

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• Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.

  Michio Kaku

  Art, Passion, Mathematical Equations

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

  Girolamo Savonarola

  Giving, Simplicity, Way

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 481, 1895.

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• Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Fall, Greatness, Yale

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• For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Beautiful, Purple, India

  "Rauschenberg: Art and Life". Book by Mary Lynn Kotz, 1990.

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• The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

  Alan Greenspan

  Years, Important, Genius

  1995 In the NewYork Times, 6 Mar, shortly after the collapse of Barings in Singapore brought about by a young derivatives trader.

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• Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.

  Maria Young Dougall

  Girl, Example, Needs

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• Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Pain, Struggle, Joy

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• A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within this definition there can be no vain ornamentation or superfluity, but the part of beauty is nonetheless great-in ideal choice of material, in visual refinement, and in the rational elegance of things intended for use.

  Eliot Noyes

  Organization, Choices, Design

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