“ Soigne: Pronounced swan-yay, it is French for "elegant." It is/was used to describe an exceptionally sexy, well-presented dish, but quickly devolved… — Terri-Lynne DeFino Copy Share Image
The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working,… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787,… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Looking feminine is important to me. My personal style is fairly traditional. I was definitely influenced by my mother, who always looks… — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans)… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
As he approached the place where a meeting of doctors was being held, he saw some elegant limousines and remarked, "The surgeons… — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own… — Clair Davies Copy Share Image
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right… — Murray Gell-Mann 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
There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more… — Barbara Roberts Copy Share Image
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
When I signed up for Google Plus, my reaction after playing around with it for a little bit was like, 'Huh, I… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure… — Richard Mille Copy Share Image
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism… — Edward Hirsch 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
Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are… — Carter Ratcliff Copy Share Image
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call… — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image