Don’t get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
The zenith of elegance in any woman’s wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
I am from the planet of elegance.
You must, if it’s possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It’s part of you, of yourself.
I am from the planet of elegance.
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
I Am She is an institution that reflects and personifies the grace, charm, and elegance of an Indian woman.
It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
Elegance is eternal and I add my pinch of that ingredient to what I wear.
Elegance is very dangerous. It’s like TNT. A little goes a long way.
Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It’s in the eyes of the beholder.
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.
The elegance of a sari or the flirtiness of a lehenga is matchless.
Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things were absurd. But they could always be worn by an elegant woman; they did not negate her elegance.
The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the ‘Times’ obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
Riding clothes are ageless and timeless, and I love to incorporate that comfort and elegance in my life.
I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.
Baseball loyalists cite the game’s legendary numbers – 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits – as evidence of the sport’s elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.
Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they’re beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
Not only did she represent inner and outer beauty and elegance, but all the work she did at the end of her life touched so many people. She created this extraordinary legacy.
It doesn’t matter what kind of book you write – you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
Luxury and elegance can be affordable, and I think a MUST!
I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple’s development must come from within.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It’s about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
When I work a nightclub, I dress up in evening wear. There’s a certain elegance to it all and I like that.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that’s mesmerizingly timeless.
Style should breathe elegance.
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn’t submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.
True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that’s mesmerizingly timeless.
True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
I’ve always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I’ve always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the ’40s and ’50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that’s what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
My fancy dress costume of choice is… something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.
At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
Maharani Gayatri Devi – she was elegance and simplicity personified.
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