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I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks. — Bella Thorne

...Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt. — Margaret Erhart

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. — Billy Wilder

The charming grass, elegant water, fascinating winds, admirable rocks and delicate sands are never alone. — Delano Johnson

An elegant mind wants elegant endings — Hanya Yanagihara

Ann Sothern's dressing room ... was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in. — Hedda Hopper

I think [the design] sucks. Its shape is not innovative, it's not elegant and it doesn't feel anthropomorphic. — Steve Jobs

Code, without tests, is not clean. No matter how elegant it is, no matter how readable and accessible, if it hath not tests, it be unclean. Dave — Robert C. Martin

A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye. — Heather O'Neill

On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant. — Christian Dior

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works. — Miroslav Volf

Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky. — Roger Tory Peterson

Spanish-language, and audio, and in deluxe hardcover editions featuring elegant silver-embossed jackets — E.L. James

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number. — Henny Youngman

To be truly elegant one should not be noticed — Beau Brummell

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance. — G.K. Chesterton

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

She was so pretty, so elegant, it made me lonely just to look at her. — George Bishop

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon

Ronan sometimes dreamt of Adam, too, the latter boy sullen and elegant and fluently disdainful of dream-Ronan's clumsy attempts to communicate. — Maggie Stiefvater

This was a Julian she'd never seen, a Julian with his expression stripped down to the elegant bones of his face. — Cassandra Clare

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that. — Johnny Weir

My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood. — Joan Rivers

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

X-awake. X-elegant. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside. — John Cheever

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious. — Bill Nighy

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. — Vernor Vinge

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. — William Shenstone

In the happy land of elegant code and pretty rainbows, there lives a spoil-sport monster called inefficiency. — Marijn Haverbeke

Let us be elegant or die! — Louisa May Alcott

Oyin Da's mind is as elegant as a French horn, thoughts moving in whorls and evoking fresh mint leaves. — Tade Thompson

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

The Cosmos is rich beyond measure - in elegant facts, in exquisite interrelationships, in the subtle machinery of awe. — Carl Sagan

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

Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function. — John Carmack

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words. — John Dryden

There's nothing better than an elegant cry of despair. — William Goyen

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle. — George Sand

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. — John Tuzo Wilson

skidded the elegant white speedboat skilfully through the — Carol Drinkwater

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. — Tyler Florence

You look all elegant and sleek, like some golden and black cat. Then you go all ghetto on me when a pretty book shakes its ass in front of you. — Rhys Ford

It was here in Mayfair, that adjectives such as gracious elegant sophisticated and sublime trip off the tongue like coins into a parking meter. — Tyne O'Connell

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

What I can tell your grace is that it deals with truths, and they are truths so appealing and elegant that no lies can equal them. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

There are no elegant potatoes. — Kathleen Tessaro

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. — Jeff Greenfield

True simplicity is elegant. — E.L. Konigsburg

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are. — Alber Elbaz

Cats are always elegant. — John Weitz

You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts. — Gianni Versace

Every Hungarian wishes to die an elegant gentleman — Igor Janke

A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended. — Jonathan Maberry

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic. — Maureen O'Hara

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. — E.F. Schumacher

People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn. — Miuccia Prada

When I was little ... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant. — Angelina Jolie

Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea. — Marshall Sylver

Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life. — Nicki Minaj

I wish I could be elegant. — Robert Mapplethorpe

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch — Marc Newson

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still. — Barbara Walters

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She knew what was coming next. The most beautiful sound there was - that elegant whoosh of the love of her life — Lauren Kate

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant. — Coco Chanel

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong. — Ellet J. Waggoner

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example. — Amory Lovins

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

Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant. — Carolina Herrera

You were a cop?" Sarah remarked, surprised. She couldn't imagine this elegant woman posted on duty anywhere. Well, Lord and Taylor, maybe. — Martha Reed

Came in elegant white cartons, so much more impressive than — James Herriot

Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence. — Elie Saab

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. — Maya Angelou

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant. — Paulo Coelho

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane. — Diablo Cody

Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. — Gabrielle Zevin

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible. — Sirio Maccioni

Was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women ... — Ann Patchett

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant. — Carly Rae Jepsen

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

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy — Jenny Holzer

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant. — Erin Morgenstern

Like a button on a shirt buttoned wrong, every attempt to correct things led to yet another fine
not to say elegant
mess. — Haruki Murakami

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;"
Cromwell of Wriothesley — Hilary Mantel

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument. — Howard Shore

Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature. — Roman Payne

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same. — Hermann Maier

You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner. — Ray Dolby

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. — Ernest Bramah

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. — Christopher Hitchens

Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality. — Philip Treacy

Where are the books? All these elegant bookshelves are empty. — Lemony Snicket

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. — Helen Hayes

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science. — Halton Arp

The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace
squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic. — Laura Kelly

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working. — Carrie Mae Weems

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry. — Julie Metz