Elegant Quotes - Page 18

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

  Jenny Holzer

  Hands, Weapons, Messy

  David Joselit, Joan Simon, Renata Salecl, Jenny Holzer (1998). “Jenny Holzer”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

  John Tuzo Wilson

  Lying, Science, Order

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• Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organizing forces of technological change ... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society.

  Gordon S. Brown

  Art, Knowledge, Science

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• Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

  Halton Arp

  Science, Robust, Claims

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• Instead of an elegant warning, you need to bring a strong deal. That's the only way you'll gain what you want.

  Jay Park

  Strong, Drama, Want

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• The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, White Privilege, Racism

  "Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama". Interview with Mike Stivers, www.truth-out.org. April 24, 2013.

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• He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

  Jeremy Northam

  Sarcastic, Humor, Thinking

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• ...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Simple

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• A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how elegant they are while also being so permissive in relation to the niceties of grammar and so open to the prospect of surprise. He's a genius.

  Garth Greenwell

  Heart, White, Genius

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

  Helen Hayes

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

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• 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.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Mean, Idaho, Dignity

  "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae". Textbook by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Article 329, 1801.

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• I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

  Joshua Mohr

  Errors, Trial And Error, Poison

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

  Howard Shore

  Thinking, Piano, Truthful

  Source: collider.com

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• [Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Zoos, Stupid, Mean

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

  Adam Savage

  Reality, Order, Ideas

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

  Bella Thorne

  Cutting, Looks, Clean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user's senses and strength - it may comport with nature.

  Stephanie Mills

  Beautiful, Technology, Wind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

  Andy Garcia

  Father, Cuba, Saws

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• My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

  Robert Fulghum

  Dance, Sweet, Night

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• I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

  Renee Fleming

  Singing, Enjoy, Exposed

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• The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

  George Sand

  Perfect, Cigar, Elegance

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• Never stop hoping for all of the righteous desires of your heart. But don't close your eyes and hearts to the simple and elegant beauties of each day's ordinary moments that make up a rich, well-lived life

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Eye, Simple

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• This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

  Elaine Stritch

  Behave, Humans, Human Beings

  "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me: Tribeca Review" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Inspirational, Funny, Flower

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.131

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• Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it

  Marissa Mayer

  Home, Army, Simple

  "The Beauty of Simplicity", www.fastcompany.com. November 1, 2005.

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