Best Elegant Quotes
372 Elegant quotes by 325 unique authors
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He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality…
— Jeremy Northam
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Instead of an elegant warning, you need to bring a strong deal. That's the only way you'll gain what you want.
— Jay Park
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Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.
— Halton Arp
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Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the…
— Unknown Author
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Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
— John Tuzo Wilson
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There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was…
— Unknown Author
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It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
— Katarina Witt
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The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant…
— Noam Chomsky
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I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it…
— Liv Tyler
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Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
— Satish Kumar
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A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters…
— J. G. Ballard
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Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do…
— Carrie Newcomer
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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.
— Riccardo Tisci
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My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he or she shows…
— Stefano Pilati
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
— Bill Nighy
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Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed at…
— Gus Van Sant
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How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger…
— Carl Sagan
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The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature
— Carl Sagan
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My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America…
— David Lynch
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A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second…
— Stephen Hawking
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Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin
— Unknown Author
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I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.
— Massimo Vignelli
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With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and surpasses the others…
— Daniel B. Wallace
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