Elegant Quotes

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

I wish I could be elegant.

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.

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.

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

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

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

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

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

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.

My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it.

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.