Elegant Quotes · Page 6

My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray - and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything.

— William Wegman

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

— Harold E. Varmus

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

— Catullus

Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail.

— Marcus Samuelsson

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

— Billy Wilder

Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

— Elie Saab

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

— Johnny Weir

When I was out of favor and people didn't want that type of boot, flats, or high heels with the elegant, dainty…

— Manolo Blahnik

“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories…

— Haruki Murakami

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the…

— Willard Gaylin

Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured…

— Dan Jenkins

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

When we think good thoughts, we feel good. When we feel good, we make good choices. When we feel good and make…

— Cheryl Richardson

“Design your sensual lifestyle down to the last detail. Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the…

— Lebo Grand

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but…

— Christian Dior

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it,…

— Steven Cojocaru

You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past…

— Abigail Adams

There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an…

— Justus von Liebig

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get…

— Wynton Marsalis

...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a…

— Mary Todd Lincoln

There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant…

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put…

— Tyler Florence

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just…

— Elliott Erwitt

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

— Carine Roitfeld

I used to focus a lot in Ozil. He has a lot of quality and a very elegant style of play.

— Marco Asensio

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

— Thomas Bulfinch

Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

— Dimitar Sasselov

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.

— Christian Dior

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that…

— Helen Hayes

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

— Marc Newson

Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition.

— Grayson Perry

I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.

— Gael Greene

“You look very elegant today, my lord." "I'm wounded. I strive to look elegant every day." - Tyrion & Littlefinger”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— Bill Nighy

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate…

— Nancy Pearcey

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