When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that… — Johann Joachim Winckelmann Copy Share Image
Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“I told a friend of mine that my ambition was now to design my lifestyle around food. He made funny remarks about… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate.… — Janny Scott Copy Share Image
It's about how whenever I fall in love, I have these expectations of the experience being a perfect dream, which, of course,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
I always loved Michelle Kwan's outfits. Most of them were designed by Vera Wang, and they're just so simple, but the fabric… — Ashley Wagner Copy Share Image
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical… — Francis Lawrence Copy Share Image
Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day… — Aldo Gucci Copy Share Image
I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up.… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the… — Chris Bangle Copy Share Image
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I really like the risk takers. I like people who make those different choices on the carpet. I really like Charlize Theron.… — Genesis Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful?… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“And indeed she did not. I thought she had a tired, dragged appearance, but I would not say so. I knew her… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart,… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the… — Wale Copy Share Image
“What's poetry?" I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the… — Robert Fulghum 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
I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted… — John Caudwell 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
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary;… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
