Elegant Quotes

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

I wish I could be elegant.

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

She is elegant rather than belle.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

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.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.