Panache Quotes

• Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?

  Tom Hardy

  Thinking, Style, Alive

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• Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Swings, Way, Grids

  "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz's Past by Investing in Its Future". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2011.

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• And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.

  Ben Goldacre

  Book, Might, Ends

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• I don't go for the flash and panache.

  Paul Walker

  Flash

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• Villains can often be one note and I would say in that case, it’s not fun to play the villain. It’s fun to play the villain if he a) has dimension and b) the villain gets to do all the things in the movie that in life he would get punished for. In the movie, you’re applauded for them if you do them with panache. And so that’s why it’s more fun to play the villain.

  James Franco

  Fun, Often Is, Play

  "A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2013.

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• No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

  Edward Hoagland

  Musical, Clarinet, Equal

  Edward Hoagland (2011). “Sex and the River Styx”, p.74, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Swings, Feelings, Balance

  "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 1, 2011.

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• As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Character, History

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• See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

  Michael Chabon

  Paper, Salvation, Said

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still slap down prime cuts with just a little more force and noise than necessary. Line cooks can't help putting a little English on outgoing plates, spinning them into the pass-through with reverse motion so they curl back just short of the edge. Oven doors in most kitchens have to be constantly tightened because of repeatedly being kicked closed by clog-shod feet. And all of us dearly love to play with knives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cutting, Doors, Knives

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.26, A&C Black

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• You look at William Powell in 'My Man Godfrey' and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very refined gentleman. I liked playing around with that, with the good posture and a style, a panache, and a way of moving about the room.

  Evan Peters

  Moving, Men, Style

  Source: collider.com

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• There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

  Irvine Welsh

  Beautiful, Sweet, Want

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• Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Religious, Book, Unique

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• Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!

  John Waters

  Gun, Zips, World

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• The Nazis were well dressed. Today's racists are a rag-tag bunch with no sense of style or panache.

  Dov Davidoff

  Style, Today, Tag

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 19, 2011

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• Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wall, Men, Hair

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• I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

  James Frecheville

  School, Years, Play

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• You are just so helpful, Andrei. (Esperetta) I try to be, Princess. (Andrei) And you fail with such panache. (Esperetta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Princess, Trying, Helpful

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• Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

  Keith Donohue

  New Orleans, America, Grace

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