Quotes About Aplomb

#1. Aplomb. I had managed to portray myself as a good Jew and,

Jon Ronson

#2. What will I do? I'll do as I have always done, darling. I will go on. I will survive. I shall overcome." It's tough to manage sounding like Scarlett O'Hara, Gloria Gaynor, and a one-woman civil rights movement all at the same time, but Anjoli pulled it off with aplomb.

Jennifer Coburn

#3. I've seen some of the most violent hard cases in the city twinkling through a quickstep and dipping into a tango with an aplomb and skill that would have earned them a guest spot on Come Dancing.

Stephen Richards

#4. When the Sovereign pushed against me, I bent like Gold should, with grace, with dignity. But now she cuts at me, and beneath the grace, beneath the aplomb, her knife will strike iron. We make for Mars, and for war.

Pierce Brown

#5. He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.

Tim Flowers

#6. When you are in love, you are in an aura of aplomb in the midst of adversity.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust.

Liz Goldwyn

#8. Most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

Jim Morrison

#9. You wear classic black Chanel with frightening aplomb. When you're not wearing those catastrophic muumuus.

Thea Harrison

#10. Master Griffin, I would marry my own mother for the excuse to stab my eyes out with her brooches than to see anything under your kilt," the man's voice said with an elegant aplomb. "Where would you like your guest's things, sir?

Tiffany Reisz

#11. As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

Gustave Flaubert

#12. That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth

Alastair Reynolds

#13. Arousal and embarrassment warred for space inside her, but she managed both with equal aplomb - she was nothing if not an excellent multitasker. How long have you been there?

Jill Shalvis

#14. aplomb. Sometimes the sheer bravado of her actions astonished

Debbie Macomber

#15. Meredith Chambers, hottest romance agent in New York, filthiest mouth east of the Mississippi. Or west, come to think of it. Some women walking by give her a shocked, slightly annoyed expression. She responds with aplomb. "Legs together, ladies. I'm not afraid of a little muff diving.

Lila Monroe

#16. I admire those believers who speak of such things with the same aplomb as if the'd just split a beer with God in the cabin next door.

Sylvain Tesson

#17. It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

Philippe Petit

#18. My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Simon Cowell

#19. You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!

H. Beam Piper

#20. The history of technology tells us that inventions are two a penny. There are many, many people who invent new things: machines, processes, tools, gizmos, gadgets, widgets, and the like. Such people are often portrayed as unsung heroes, ahead of their field, unrecognized in their own time

Anonymous

#21. Forever is only the beginning

Stephenie Meyer

#22. Two women in a room. One seated, one standing

Maggie O'Farrell