Elegant Quotes - Page 13

• Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Literature, Language, Appreciated

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

  Carla Bruni

  People, Want, Proud

  Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. August 1, 2008.

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• As he approached the place where a meeting of doctors was being held, he saw some elegant limousines and remarked, "The surgeons have arrived." Then he saw some cheaper cars and said, "The physicians are here, too." ... And when he saw a row of overshoes inside, under the hat rack, he is reported to have remarked, "Ah, I see there are laboratory men here."

  Walter Bradford Cannon

  Science, Men, Doctors

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• I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Real, Style

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• The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Sunset, Eight, Years

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• We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Scratches, Language, Holy

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• 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.

  Vincent Piazza

  Powerful, Eye, Men

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• You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.

  Alexander Siddig

  Honesty, People, Way

  "Alexander Siddig - Discovering the Uncommon Hero". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.

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• I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.

  Francis Lawrence

  Animal, Light, Missing

  "Reese Witherspoon and Director Francis Lawrence Interview Water for Elephants". Press Conference, collider.com. April 19, 2011.

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• It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.

  Chris Weitz

  Animal, Opportunity, Way

  "'Golden Compass' Director Chris Weitz Answers Your Questions: Part Ii". November 21, 2007.

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• My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

  Eva Zeisel

  Party, Artist, People

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• Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

  Eva Brann

  Beautiful, Liars, Clouds

  Eva Brann “Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad”, Paul Dry Books

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• Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.

  John Carmack

  Class, Sometimes, Framework

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2011

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• It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think more than that French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.

  Alexa Chung

  Thinking, Style, French Woman

  "Maje Fetes Alexa Chung in a French Meets British Fashion Collab". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2012.

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• I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

  Kate Fleetwood

  Reading, First Love, Would Be

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• I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Country, Husband, Struggle

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• Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

  Willard Gaylin

  Quality, Guilt, Essentials

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• What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

  Jim Sanborn

  Realization, Cryptography, Mathematics

  Jonathan P. Binstock, Jim Sanborn (2003). “Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction”, Corcoran Gallery Of Art

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• A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

  Lord Byron

  Salt, Refinement, Expenses

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• It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Greek, Doubt

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• I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.

  Bill Nighy

  Writing, Heart, People

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Ideas, Two

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• I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

  Belva Plain

  People, Speaking French, Language

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• Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

  Gino Severini

  Art, Profound, Phrases

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• When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Persistence, Simple

  Newsweek Interview on October 14, 2006. "Steve Jobs Legacy: His Stanford University Address & More Great Quotes" by, www.thedailybeast.com. October 07, 2011.

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