No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca. — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Elegant revenge is great. The perfect revenge that lets people see who they actually are for a moment. — Patrick Somerville Copy Share Image
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant. — Hubert de Givenchy Copy Share Image
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong. — Ellet J. Waggoner Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant. — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Grace Kelly is my main inspiration, for her timeless beauty. I like Jennifer Lawrence for her fun, down-to-earth style, and Taylor Swift… — Gracie Gold Copy Share Image
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey,… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I love regal looks on the Oscars red carpet. I just love old-Hollywood glamour. I love hair pulled back off the face,… — Giuliana Rancic Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he… — Stefano Pilati Copy Share Image
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I have a dark and sexy side, and I sometimes have a feminine, elegant side. — Jennie Copy Share Image
Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
