Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent… — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Rose is not the prettiest flower, neither water lily or petunia nor magnolia! An elegant soul is the prettiest flower on earth!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if… — Joan Rivers 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
It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children.… — George Bodenheimer Copy Share Image
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of… — John Olver 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
It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of… — John Jeremiah Bigsby Copy Share Image
I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual… — Camilla Belle Copy Share Image
You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around… — Ray Dolby Copy Share Image
What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a… — Wallace Shawn 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
