The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.

I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of…

— Brian Skerry

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

— Elaine Stritch

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

— Adele

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

— Bill Nighy

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop…

— Steve Jobs

White makes your house more peaceful and elegant.

— Sana Khan

Not taking yourself seriously is one of the most elegant things in the world.

— Rick Owens

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of…

— Wyclef Jean

The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching…

— Thomas Dubay

We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should…

— John Venn

In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In…

— Emanuel Lasker

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…

— Lord Byron

A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and…

— Stephen Hawking

Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant…

— Ruchi Sanghvi

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

— Judy Gold