Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
Paul Smith’s artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that’s always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.
This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.
My mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items – and I remember it because it seemed so elegant – was her Guerlain powder.
I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She’s sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people – writers, scientists, artists.
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.
Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.
The key is that when we disagree, we really hear the other one out and agree that there is a more elegant solution than one of us ‘winning.’
Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world’s most elegant phenomena.
Marion Cotillard is one of my favorite actresses. Not only is she so supremely elegant, but her choices are remarkable. I also admire Margot Robbie. She’s been working in film for a long time and is not the kind of actress who had instant breakout success.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
The Emilia Wickstead customer is a sophisticated, accomplished woman who expresses her femininity and style through the way she dresses. She appreciates classic with a twist, yet luxurious and high quality clothing that make her feel confident, elegant, and ultimately chic.
I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they’d put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? ‘It’s me! Look at me!’ I loved the attention.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is just perfect-looking. Whether she’s walking down the street, she looks so regal and elegant all the time, and I love that.
I like to accentuate the feminine form, so I’m a big fan of corsets. A woman’s body is beautiful and should be shown off and celebrated. I love a simple and elegant dress that highlights my waist.
My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.
In Brazil, there is a different type of football, but I think I am seen as an elegant type of ball player, who is creating for other people.
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
You don’t need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller – as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.
I love studying asteroids because they are relatively simple, just rocks in space. They can be understood with physics and described with elegant equations. For the most part, they are serene celestial bodies.
James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.
Don’t wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.
Sailing is in the same vein as horse riding. There’s a beauty to it; it’s an elegant sport. You have to employ your intelligence. It’s technical, but you also have to take into account the natural elements – the wind, the water, the weather.
I love a little darkness at the table with just enough light from IKEA white candlesticks. Seriously! They look elegant but are simple and unscented and create mood lighting.
I’m all about simple, elegant, and effective, and when I wear the rubber boot on my head, it draws a lot of attention.
Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.
The Lux girl is every girl as far as I’m concerned. She can be shy, confident, boisterous, elegant, or clumsy.
Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there’s a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it’s cool to mash up a lot of different looks.
I have always aspired to create beautiful designs that make women feel elegant and confident – for me, that is my greatest challenge and inspiration.
Massimo Vignelli designed a timeless, elegant, and powerful identity for American Airlines.
I’m leaving the screen because I don’t think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I’m elegant on the stage.
On screen you have to look elegant, understated and appropriate, and I used to spend masses on designer stuff, but now I get everything in Zara.
I love the look of books published by the firm of Rupert Hart-Davis: They strike me as handsome, elegant, and inviting. I’ll pick up almost anything with that imprint, especially if it’s in a jacket or priced low.
My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother’s elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.
I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it’s best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.
Hacking into a victim of crime’s phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.
White makes your house more peaceful and elegant.
I had a poster of Iniesta. He seemed like a different player to me: elegant, special… a genius. I watched all the Barcelona games to see how they played and the geniuses, Iniesta and Messi. After, I tried to imitate them, but it was difficult.
I love Felicity Jones. It was funny because I went to go see the ‘Rogue One’ set, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I love you.’ And she’s so tiny, and elegant, and she’s just so small. Everyone’s so much smaller than they seem.
Working out should be empowering! It should make you look and feel strong, elegant, healthy – the best possible version of you.
I grew up with very elegant parents; their black and white photographs and style are still a huge source of inspiration in designing my collections.
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 which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.
One of the reasons that fascism ascended to power so quickly was that it was considered socially elegant to support this new way of government.
I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch’s Faneuil Hall, Boston, beneath a vast painting of Daniel Webster debating the preservation of the Union with Robert Hayne of South Carolina, before the Civil War.
A lot of people say, ‘I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.’ All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.
My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.
The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn’t want to do old-fashioned.
