Elegantly Quotes
36 quotes by 32 authors
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"It's better to give than to receive." Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total hogwash, and in…
— T. Harv Eker
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
— Mark Twain
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We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
— Wassily Leontief
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There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.
— Lola J. May
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An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors:…
— Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
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One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into…
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.
— William McDonough
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Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule…
— Catharine Macaulay
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What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully…
— Robert Grudin
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What makes a champion is not how elegantly you start, but how strongly you finish...!!
— Robin Sharma
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Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's…
— Tony Hoagland
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If you are fond of dressing elegantly, or when you put on your clothes, think of the incorruptible garment of righteousness in which our souls…
— John of Kronstadt
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That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that…
— Mark Twain
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The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
— Albert Einstein
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A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
— Morris Kline
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There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in…
— Pete Hamill
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Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
— Rumi
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Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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