It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
Penelope Fitzgerald never fails to surprise: her language is clever and elegant, her settings are unusual, her characters are unpredictable, and I am always caught out by a line or moment which makes me laugh out loud.
My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It’s very chic and elegant and classic.
My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don’t have to put a lot of effort and time into it.
I really looked up to Grace Kelly when I was growing up. I thought she was just so beautiful and elegant. I wanted to grow up to be like her.
Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor – Washington’s most sought-after bachelor.
Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding – the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.
I have never been graceful, never been elegant.
To wear stays forces you into the elegant, balletic posture of a Georgian minuet-dancer. As with the tight-lacing, there is still great debate about whether stay-wearing, which began in adolescence, actually changed the shape of the skeleton, or was just a cosmetic, temporary, alteration.
I was taken to my first fashion show – Nina Ricci haute couture – in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.
I’ve been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.
I’m not much to watch. I run, I fight, I’m not elegant like Raul, Figo, Zidane or Beckham.
India is criss-crossed with the most elegant wells that tap into the shallow aquifer.
I have a gorgeous coat that I found at a vintage fair – it’s just so elegant. Unfortunately, it has a massive hole underneath the arm, as I think I may have worn it to death!
I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.
When I was a little girl, and we would visit my grandmother whenever we were in D.C., she would always greet us at the door in elegant suits or gowns with matching pearls and earrings.
Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition.
I’m a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware – somebody’s elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.
I love to shop at BCBG, because it’s classy and elegant but a little bit sexy. It fits who I am in one store.
Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It’s a personality.
Looking feminine is important to me. My personal style is fairly traditional. I was definitely influenced by my mother, who always looks elegant, and by Estee’s classic style; she was always in Givenchy or Ungaro.
I used to focus a lot in Ozil. He has a lot of quality and a very elegant style of play.
Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.
