Elegant Quotes · Page 5

The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.

— Christian Dior

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

— William Shenstone

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

— Monica Bellucci

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

— M. F. K. Fisher

When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was…

— Angelina Jolie

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

— Sharon Olds

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

— Brian Kernighan

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

— John Fogerty

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part…

— George Catlin

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's…

— Adam Savage

The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if…

— Richard Mille

“Chicago—this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt…

— Hunter S. Thompson

His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away…

— Eduardo Galeano

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us…

— Deborah Butterfield

I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert,…

— Luanne Rice

Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the…

— Anonymous

My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry…

— David Lynch

I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the…

— Plato

An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and…

— Timothy Foote

With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and…

— Daniel B. Wallace

What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which…

— Tony Hoare

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and…

— Allen W. Wood

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Don't wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look…

— Tadashi Shoji

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

— Halton Arp

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

— Mark Zuckerberg

People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.

— Hubert de Givenchy

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

— William Baziotes

I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe.

— Garance Dore

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

— Carla Bruni

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

— Vanna White

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

— Ellet J. Waggoner

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

— Arthur Smith

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Elegant revenge is great. The perfect revenge that lets people see who they actually are for a moment.

— Patrick Somerville

People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is…

— Miuccia Prada

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

— Douglas Crockford