Top 73 Quotes About Elegantly
#1. My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times I want to dress more elegantly. Most of the time it's what I like to call 'comfortable chic': Giuseppe Zanotti flat sandals, Rag & Bone jeans, slouchy Isabel Marant shirts.
Joan Smalls
#2. Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.
Douglas Wilder
#3. Then centrifugal gravity took over, and with something close to majesty the skeletal spacecraft descended out of the repair bay as smoothly and elegantly as a falling chandelier.
Alastair Reynolds
#4. Do you think he would?"
"I think he'd give his left nut to get in your pants."
"Very nice," I told him. "So elegantly put."
Dan laughed and leaned forward to nuzzle my neck again. "Yes, Elle, I think Jack would love to fuck you.
Megan Hart
#5. I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies - in great towns and great crowds. It's a plant that takes time and space and air; and London society is a huge "squash", as we elegantly call it - an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob.
Henry James
#6. I love cheetahs. Every moment of every day is spent in fear of dying a terrible death yet they always carry themselves elegantly, remain loyal to their family, and never complain about anything.
Gregor Collins
#7. I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.
Isadore Singer
#8. There was a beauty to an elegantly designed circuit board that rivaled anything found in nature.
Kit Rocha
#9. The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.
Astro Teller
#10. The Queen touched her lips thoughtfully with a single long white finger. 'The Fair Folk, unlike humans, do not concern themselves overmuch with liking. Love, perhaps, and hate. Both are useful emotions. But liking ... She shrugged elegantly.
Cassandra Clare
#11. If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted
elegantly.
Keith Richards
#12. Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.
Lady Gaga
#13. Albert Einstein: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed... Elegantly
Matthew Cross
#14. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially," he told Dukas. "I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
Walter Isaacson
#15. Anything is forgiven those who sin elegantly; while gaucheness sours even the noblest deed.
Jonathan Grimwood
#17. There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.
Lola J. May
#18. You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
Bill Nighy
#19. This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
Albert Einstein
#20. A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
Morris Kline
#21. If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.
Willem Dafoe
#22. Her beauty was matchless, face so elegantly crafted that she appeared ethereal; unreal. But while nature had clearly bestowed the gift of physical perfection, it had not breathed the warmth of humanity into its creation.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#23. She hated funeral homes with their thick carpets and elegantly appointed decor. She would much prefer an all-out Irish wake where everyone drank too much Guinness and brawls broke out. That's how the dead should be honored- with life and all of it's warts.
Elizabeth Meyette
#24. Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot. "I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen?
Neil Gaiman
#26. Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#27. Present company excepted is such an elegantly insulting term, I think, given it clearly means present company especially. It's up there with with all due respect, meaning with no respect whatsoever.
Mhairi McFarlane
#28. A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#29. Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.
Davis Miller
#30. I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.
Isabel Allende
#31. The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#32. Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain
#33. Anyone with the need to be accountable to deal with more than what he or she can complete in the moment has the opportunity to do so more easily and elegantly than in the mind.
David Allen
#34. I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.
Paul Theroux
#35. Jessica DuLong's elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of literary non-fiction with grace and energy.
Gay Talese
#36. Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.
Isabella Beeton
#37. The writer is often faced with two choices
turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.
Chinua Achebe
#38. Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones
Susan Cain
#39. A good story is elegantly wrapped, and the child discovers things bit by bit.
Robert Ingpen
#40. Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Benjamin Disraeli
#41. I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.
Frances Trollope
#42. Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
#43. Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
Rumi
#44. When there's a clear vision, and you've got the creative teams working toward that goal, each on their own, it can then come together quite elegantly at the endpoint.
Greg Rucka
#45. Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
Tamsin Egerton
#46. My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.
John Adams
#47. 'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.
Robert Gottlieb
#48. Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very logical to a certain degree. It requires a bit of intuition as to how things can fit together elegantly.
Vienna Teng
#49. There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories captive.
Bryan Hall
#50. As a professional, as a person, and as a player, I think he's fantastic. It's like he's dancing the tango. I just love how he plays football so elegantly. To me, Andres is Don Andres.
Dani Alves
#51. An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!
Steve Crocker
#52. I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years ... appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.
Howard Frank Mosher
#53. That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.
Mark Twain
#54. When we are walking our chosen path, we walk elegantly, emanating light.
Paulo Coelho
#55. The principals in elegantly simple. We learn to love by being loved, we learn gentleness by being gentled, we learn to be graceful by experiencing the feeling of grace.
Deane Juhan
#56. The multiverse model offers an elegantly postmodern solution to character stasis in a market-driven serial publishing system which privileges constancy over major change.
Jose Alaniz
#57. It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed
the two bridemaids were duly inferior
her father gave her away
her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated
her aunt tried to cry
and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant.
Jane Austen
#58. I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#59. That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.
Francis Bacon
#60. Do not fight for your rights on streets. Do it elegantly within you!
Goran Spasa
#61. The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#62. I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
Fidel Castro
#63. Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
Aldous Huxley
#64. A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.
Sei Shonagon
#65. Her eyelashes lay on her cheek, but they were not extraordinarily thick or long. Her eyebrows would benefit from plucking, but they were elegantly curved.
Jo Beverley
#66. Elegantly yet beastly, caring yet deadly, she comes down to me.
Cameron Jace
#67. She was tall, elegantly dressed and coifed, and looked ten years younger than her fifty-five years.
Stuart Woods
#68. Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#69. The first things people always ask are,
why?
And how?
But not with me.
I don't want to do anything.
I don't want to be anything.
I want to disappear elegantly.
I want people to look for my goodbye note
and find nothing but smoke.
Lora Mathis
#70. I had one elegantly folded cookie - a short paper nerve baked in an ear.
Lorrie Moore
#71. What makes a champion is not how elegantly you start, but how strongly you finish ... !!
Robin Sharma
#73. We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
Wassily Leontief