Inelegant Quotes

#1. Enough, both of you,' Clary said. 'You can't be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.'
Technically,' said Simon, 'I can.'
Jace made an inelegant noise; after a moment Clary realized that he was trying not to laugh, and only semi-succeeding.

Cassandra Clare

#2. I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

Patrick Marber

#3. In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists...The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.

John M Barry

#4. Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

Robert Bresson

#5. I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

P.D. James

#6. Reality is inelegant," Phillip huffed. "No," Martin said definitively. "Reality is stunningly elegant. Our understanding of it is not.

Scott Meyer

#7. The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

Emile M. Cioran

#8. It was inelegant, but what was not when taking a hostage?

Thomm Quackenbush

#9. To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#10. What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Murray Gell-Mann

#11. The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

Idries Shah

#12. It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF ... It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

Steven Tyler

#13. The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new.

Lao-Tzu

#14. Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

Anonymous

#15. ]sing to us
the one with violets in her lap
]mostly
]goes astray

Sappho

#16. A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

#17. While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved everything you've been promised, someone else has been breaking all the rules and seeing all the success that comes from doing so.

Dan Pearce

#18. The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or

John Calvin

#19. What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.

Elizabeth Warren

#20. It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

Robert K. G. Temple

#21. Demons have existed on the Discworld for at least as long as the gods, who in many ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as that between terrorists and freedom fighters.

Terry Pratchett