Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
Looking feminine is important to me. My personal style is fairly traditional. I was definitely influenced by my mother, who always looks… — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more… — Barbara Roberts Copy Share Image
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
“Anyone watching her would have thought her cold, indifferent, but this was the only way she knew to tackle her deepest troubles,… — Laura L. Sullivan Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive,… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
You always want to keep your look clean and elegant, but you don't have to do the safe black-dress route. Have some… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day. They can completely change the look of an outfit, and women… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in… — Tony Lema Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk,… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
Snapchat built an elegant, incredibly well-thought-out tool to make it fun, simple, and frictionless for normal people to share snippets of their… — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
I think for the women of today, because we work and go around a lot, Armani is ideal - simple and elegant… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should… — Todd English Copy Share Image
“[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal… We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call… — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights,… — Dustin Diamond Copy Share Image
I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that… — Johann Joachim Winckelmann Copy Share Image