Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it. — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power. — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem,… — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want… — Johnny Ball Copy Share Image
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
“Brilliant minds, though brimming with feeling, often remain silent — not from coldness, but out of sheer elegance.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin Copy Share Image
The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence… — John Green Copy Share Image
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
True Elegance and Beauty starts with your mind. Embrace the idea that you are better than you suppose. Reach for a greater… — Christel Tait Copy Share Image
It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens.… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image