Elegant Quotes - Page 7

• To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Smart, Successful, Nurse

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• To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

  Catullus

  Book, Giving, Littles

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• I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Blow, Dry, Evening

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• What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

  Jim Sanborn

  Realization, Cryptography, Mathematics

  Jonathan P. Binstock, Jim Sanborn (2003). “Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction”, Corcoran Gallery Of Art

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• The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

  Fred Wilson

  Strategy, User Experience, Units

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• In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.

  Chase Twichell

  Beautiful, Pain, Drama

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• 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.

  Miuccia Prada

  People, Answers, Study

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• Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Moving, Practice, Design

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• I loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes, that probably weren't created with any intent towards a larger narrative, and they would get woven into narratives in a really elegant and exciting way.

  Ed Helms

  Woven, Narrative, Way

  "Ed Helms Talks THE HANGOVER PART III, Character Relationships, Location Shoots, Returning Characters, Concluding the Trilogy & More from Our Set Visit". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. April 17, 2013.

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• Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

  Samuel Richardson

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.115

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• I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on.

  Mindy Kaling

  Hate, Quality, Gowns

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.

  Chris Sharma

  Sports, Strong, Rocks

  Source: espn.go.com

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• Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.

  Sam Hamill

  Farewell, Moon, Simple

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• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Selfish, Umpires

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.185, Penguin

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• What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Extraordinary Beauty, Ideas

  "Richard Dawkins: I Can't Be Sure God Does Not Exist". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 24, 2012.

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• All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Times Are Changing, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tales from Earthsea”, p.368, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.

  Isaac Newton

  Mean, Analysis, Construction

  Isaac Newton (2008). “1691-1695”, p.261, Cambridge University Press

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• You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.

  Abigail Adams

  Family, Country, Sweet

  Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.376, Library of America

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• True simplicity is elegant.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Simplicity

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wine, Mean, Play

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• There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Entrances, Lows

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book I. Chapter II, Sec. 6, 15BC.

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• Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.

  Bill Ayers

  Dream, Circles, House

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• Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.

  Martha Grimes

  Historical Novels, Details, London

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• Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

  Pam Houston

  Courageous

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