Quotes About Graceful

Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brows unfurrow, limps disappear.

But she wasn't a little girl, she was a beautiful woman, tall and lovely, with tresses of black hair that curved like cupped hands around her face.

The custom of going to a party only when we have been invited is a necessary, attractive, decent way for a party to evolve.

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

It was all you, your graceful white smiles like a French word, the one for nursery, the one for brine.

She was graceful—but it was the dexterous grace of a predator, not the deliberate grace of a courtly lady.

Thank you." "For?" "Defending my honor. When Adolin does that, someone usually gets stabbed. Your way was pleasanter.

It was as if he were as comfortable when sitting properly as other people were when lounging.

When Simol was informed of the arrival of the Edgedancers, a concealed consternation and terror, as is common in such cases, fell upon him; although they were not the most demanding of orders, their graceful, limber movements hid a deadliness that was, by this time, quite renowned; also, they were the most articulate and refined of the Radiants.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

she would have been as smooth to his general need of her as handled ivory to the palm.

My struggle has been graceful. Yes, I have taken money from family, but never from outsiders.

You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses have the same effect.

Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That's what caught America's eye.

I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something 'contemporary' or 'trendy,' because ballet doesn't progress on one track: it can branch out in many directions, and as Balanchine showed, there's always room for pure classicism and more subtle alterations of it.

I think the trick is to leave before everyone is sick of you!

I suppose I'm considered a little old fashioned, but I still believe the most flattering skirt length is just skimming the middle of the knee.

There's something about a long, high-waisted skirt and little, buttoned blouse that I really love.

I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

I did floor and I did the balance beam, so, you know, dancing on two Jaguar hoods, it was a snap!

No one plays the silent flute better than she does!

Her beauty, which struck him at the time, did not make her look younger than her age; he might sooner have said that her age made her beauty more eloquent.