Quotes About Being Elegant

#1. Being elegant means developing your ability to describe a concept in a beautiful and simple way for easy understanding.

Rohit Bhargava

#2. Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.

Philip Treacy

#3. Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.

Fernando Pessoa

#4. Step into the center of the center of the center - right into your Now - and see: how elegant and honest this moment is. Just being yourself, a world to hold your feet, a universe to lift your gaze, a heart beating - constant, in the center of it all.

Laurie Perez

#5. A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

George Catlin

#6. Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

Charles Saatchi

#7. Tradition spoke of an elegant half-arch being only a fallen pile of stones without its counterpart to make it whole.

Mercedes Lackey

#8. To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being ... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

Italo Calvino

#9. A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#10. Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's
like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

John Green

#11. For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.

Michio Kaku

#12. One time there was a student at Punjab University in Lahore who came down with cancer and his friend came to me for help. I stood outside on the street in Lahore and asked the people in that city for help. Within four or five hours, I received more than 40 million rupees [more than US $670,000].

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#13. I myself prefer being called Cassie. It's so much friendlier and less pretentious than Cassandra, don't you think? ... I think both fit you right fine. One is elegant and graceful, the other fun and lively.

Karen Witemeyer

#14. I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

Andrea Bocelli

#15. [On David Hume]
Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.

Jonathan Miller

#16. Holy guacamole. Was that a double entendre? I swear that was a double entendre. Someone hold my panties on for me because Mason Lowe was freaking flirting with me, using double entendres.

Linda Kage

#17. Sometimes a person who is utterly devoid of charm will try to create a good impression by using very elegant language; yet he only succeeds in being ridiculous.

Sei Shonagon

#18. One of the points of being alive is we get to pay attention. We get to both participate in and observe this weird universe that is simultaneously like stunningly elegant and completely heartless.

John Green

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

Elaine Stritch

#20. Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

Carrie Newcomer

#21. We will never have an expiration date. Our love is destined to exist forever.

Truth Devour

#22. 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

#23. I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any.

Emily Bronte

#24. When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

David Ogden Stiers