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Quotes About Graceful

All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.
~ Phoebe Philo
Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
~ Jack Jones
You know who I like the way he celebrates is Peyton. He kind of gives the guy a handshake and goes back to the sidelines. I think that's a great celebration right there.
~ Brian Urlacher
I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.
~ Jennifer Jason Leigh
The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
~ James Montgomery
People always tell me that redheads go silver. Long, silver-grey hair would be my ideal way of ageing.
~ Mick Hucknall
She was tall, elegantly dressed and coifed, and looked ten years younger than her fifty-five years.
~ Stuart Woods
like a zephyr shooting into the night sky, leaving a trail of moonlit particles that swirled in brief, unspeakable beauty, and then faded into nothing.
~ Susan Wiggs
A] smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear.
~ Susanna Clarke
This young woman, he indicated Miss Wintertowne, she has, I dare say, all the usual accomplishments and virtues? She was graceful? Witty? Vivacious? Capricious? Danced like sunlight? Rode ilk the wind? Sang like an angel? Embroidered like Penelope? Spoke French, Italian, German, Breton, Welsh and many other languages? Mr. Norrell said he supposed so. He believed that those were the sorts of things young ladies did nowadays.
~ Susanna Clarke
She was slender, and wonderfully graceful. Except that her movements were languid—very languid—indeed, there was nothing in her appearance to indicate an invalid.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
His leap was exact, mathematical. The initial arc - head tucked between taut arms that spread out gradually like wings - was as graceful as a swan dive.
~ Juan Filloy
Humility is easy, although Miss Manners much admires brilliant humility. The usual variety, with its claims about feeling awed and hoping to be worthy, is tiresome. But it is extremely difficult to make others acquainted with how very much one has to be humble about. No, that's not quite what Miss Manners meant to say. What is difficult is to establish gracefully that one has cause to be proud and haughty, before one can be contrastingly humble. The
~ Judith Martin
He walked noisily, like a fish.
~ Jules Renard
in that instant, with the wind catching her hair and painting her cheeks pink, she looked so enchantingly lovely that Simon nearly forgot to breathe.
~ Julia Quinn
I've tried to be graceful and I've tried to make sure my arguments are grounded in reason and insight.
~ Shelby Steele
Always be Graceful and Useful Nara Bhuvaneshwari
~ Booker T. Washington
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
~ bovee christian nestell iv
She looks clumsy, beautiful. It's a beauty that could pierce the most delicate regions of the heart of the viewer.
~ Haruki Murakami
A smile like a small wisp of smoke drifting quietly skyward on a windless day.
~ Haruki Murakami
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.
~ Hawthorne, Nathaniel
A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.
~ Heather O'Neill
'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.
~ Vanessa Paradis