Quotes About Graceful

They weren't graceful, being so low and foursquare. They reminded Mary of otters she had seen in zoos, the way otters moved on land; but otters were very graceful underwater. For wolverines, this was it. Not graceful. But of course this was a human perspective; they were also obviously capable, confident, happy on the snow.

When she realized all attention was on her, she slowed. "Oh." She gave them a Queen Elizabeth wave and said, "Play on.

It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors. The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.

He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.

Be joyful, beautiful, tranquil like a tree.

Nature is powerful and beautiful. Nature is destructive and creative. Nature is amazing and wonderful. Nature is loving and graceful.

An untied shoelace can be dangerous,' he said. 'I could have tripped.' She stared at him. A moment dragged by. 'I'm joking,' he said at last. She relaxed. 'Really?' 'Absolutely. I would never have tripped. I'm far too graceful.

He wore a thin silk scarf—little more than a cravat—and a bowler, but he was famously, almost comically hardy. Dexter had never seen him sweat even wearing a dinner suit in dead summer. He'd a quick knifelike walk that required Dexter to stride in earnest to keep up, although he was several inches taller.

it perished with beautiful reluctance, like an evening star—

The low grass loaded with the dew

Her face is rounder than the moon

His gait was soundless, like the bird

The motions of the dipping birds

Under the thousand crystal candelabras I danced with ten elderly gentlemen who had nothing to say but did not let that stop them. I answered only, Indeed and Oh yes and Do you think so?

Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?

Kankedort (n.) An awkward situation or affair. I take comfort in the fact that even when the editors of the OED do not have the answer to something, they manage to impart this lack of knowledge in a particularly graceful fashion, thereby diffusing what would otherwise be a bit of a kankedort. The etymology for this work reads "of unascertained etymology". see also: zugzwang

It takes a snowflake two hours to fall from cloud to earth. Can't you just see its slow, peaceful decent?

He was so lovely, so gorgeous, Dawson couldn't put a name to how beautiful he was—not divinely, not spectacularly, not beautifully. He just danced. He looked like a soul clothed in muscle.

I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.

Not many dictators announce their resignation, but I did because I didn't want to stay on and overstay my welcome.

Southern women always know how to make you feel welcome, loved and admired, even when we're talkin' smack!

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.

The ballerina style is here to stay. An added advantage is that the shoes blend well with Indian as well as Western attire.