His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if… — Richard Mille Copy Share Image
My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the… — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
I like the beach and would also love to learn golf because I think it is rather elegant for an older lady. — Virginia Hey Copy Share Image
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated,… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives. Nothing… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar. — Sue Grafton 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
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant. — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
“This is God's beauty! The Elegant nature of Esther, The Meek nature of Moses, The Pius nature of Paul, The Passionate nature… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Both Italy and Britain have a great tailoring tradition. British men are famously elegant and careful with their style: they love to… — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
