Quotes About Poise

I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

You have to stand up super-straight in those corsets and pull your shoulders back.

There are moments when you have to have a cool head and keep a standard.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

I'm never nervous around anyone, which I think is a real key to my success. I was never nervous around anyone!

Never complain and never explain.

I'm not some ditzy moron who has no idea how to deal with a diplomat as if they're some exotic animal.

Survive everything. And do it with style.

Survive everything. And do it with style. ~ Cleo Coyle

standing, as now, lean as a knife

She combined a cool forwardness -the overflow of what I think is called "poise"- with a shyness and sadness that caused her detached way of selecting her words to seem as unnatural as the intonation of a professor of "speech.

They did not care if Pearl saw them this way. They were so artlessly beautiful, even right out of bed. Where did this ease come from? How could they be so at home, so sure of themselves, even in pajamas?

The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool - his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.

Be charming, and shut up!

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

Always be classy. Never be crazy.

Travers spoke out of the side of her mouth as they walked past the frozen flock of reporters to meet McGuire at the front door. "Excellent poise, Marlow. Just what we meant by handling the press tactfully." "Thank you, Travers. That's how it's done." "I was being sarcastic." "I wasn't.

her graceful beautifully shaped legs like that, supply soft and

I wouldn't throw her outta bed for eating crackers. She was all class.

Being a lady is an attitude.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.