Quotes About Graceful

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.

He worked to pay attention, realizing that the tottering upright stinking blob was speaking. No, he corrected himself resolutely: It was a graceful, fluid biped who was addressing him.

We cannot understand the Higher Wisdom. Later, well after the event, we may see the lesson contained in the event, and be truly grateful. We must, however, submit to what happens, accepting all that unfolds gracefully. This is the key. All your tragedies in life and in the theatre come about because of non-acceptance of the will of the Gods. Not my petty little ant-like will, but the Gods omnipotent will, let that will be done, I say. This is the beginning and end of the virtuous life.

She wonders how he will get out of the easy chair in a way that's remotely graceful. He'll stand to top up her wine, then perhaps hold her glass while he leans over to kiss her again. Novelists have this same problem, she thinks, Dickens and Austen and everyone since: how to get people in and out of rooms, up and out of chairs.

you do understand we live in Cheapside, on Gracechurch Street. It is truly quite a beautiful residential street, but not a part of town those in high society frequent. Are you sure you do not mind your carriage being seen there?" "Miss

We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.

Oh, yes, I'm very refined, Peter.

She was, surprisingly, an exquisite dancer

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

The voice was suave, pleasant, well modulated and expressive. The restless eyes were so black that it was hard to detect expression in them, but his voice more than made up for it. Here was no man who talked in a conversational monotone, but one whose every word seemed alive with expression. His motions as he moved about straightening up the room were graceful, well-timed and effective.

She flowed across that office with the rippling, effortless progress of a cylinder of jelly sliding off a tilted plate.

We went down the stairs to the café on the ground floor. I had discovered that was the best way to get rid of friends. Once you had a drink all you had to say was: "Well, I've got to get back and get off some cables," and it was done. It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working.

It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working.

A Ranuncolo venne di nuovo voglia di comporre una ballata sulle fanciulle come lei, non bellissime ma graziose, di quelle che si sognano la notte, mentre le classiche bellezze si dimenticano dopo cinque minuti.

I guess that I have been thinking about how graceful you were, and although it is none of my business, I wondered whether you might not be paying a price for being that way. . . . People want to have an easy fix on other people, and since you are Cindi Coeur, it's easy to assume that someone who satirizes our shortcomings has set herself above us.

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

Obviously, I'm coordinated and whatnot.

You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

I love watching birds of prey and stags.

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.