Quotes of: Elegance Keyword

I wondered if I'd ever get over the pain of it. It hurt so much I wanted to scream. But I didn't scream. What I feel now is that the pain is still there but it isn't keeping me from walking or talking, it's a feeling of complete helplessness and absu...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on o...

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction...

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

Heather Graham

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.

Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Richard Dawkins

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.

Michelle Dockery

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Mark Zuckerberg

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

Patricia Highsmith

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Josh Billings

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

Donna Tartt

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

Eva Green

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.

Harold Evans

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Henry Fielding

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

John Fogerty

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

Judy Gold

[after the meal that the Starretts share with Shane] Shane: That was an elegant dinner, Mrs. Starrett.

Shane

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

Vanna White

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

bell hooks

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson