Elegance Quotes - Page 15

• When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Heart, Warrior

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

  John Green

  Believe, Thinking, Want

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.223, Penguin

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• Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

  Jean Cocteau

  Visibility, Achieve

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.

  Ann Brashares

  Practice, Two, Needs

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.69, Penguin

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• I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything. And beauty — great beauty.

  Carol Friedman

  Thinking, Grace, Soul

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Motivational Sports, Mean

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• No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Struggle, Thinking, Ivy

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• The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it’s important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and elegance. Pieces that are easy to mix within their own wardrobe. Easy dressing while maintaining a well put together look.

  Nicole Richie

  Winter, House, Important

  "Nicole Richie Grows Up". "Interview Magazine" Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2010.

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• If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Beautiful, Simple, Records

  "Meet the new boss". Interview with Mark Hagen, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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• I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

  Pete Townshend

  Mirrors, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

  Donatella Versace

  Men, Style, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Curves, Action, Fitting

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.233, Spectra

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• I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Should Have, Quality, Shapes

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.96, Penguin

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• I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try." [Zarek]

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love, Strong, Stars

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• I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels

  Charlie Brooker

  Dog, Light, Rocks

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.320, Faber & Faber

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• Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

  Robert Schumann

  Play, Pieces, Easy

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.8

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• Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Rebuilding, Morality

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• True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.

  Coco Chanel

  Clothes, Numbers, Ease

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• Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.

  Edward Abbey

  Sports, Butterfly, Example

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Phrases, Fancy, Next

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• It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

  Joan Fontaine

  Thinking, Blue, World

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• In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

  Joseph Joubert

  Cleanliness, Temperance

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• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
  On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Tailors, Newton

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• Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Nature, Science, Simple

  Murray Gell-Mann's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1969.

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• My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

  Cyril Ritchard

  Class, May, Common

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