Quotes About Elegance

Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

Nature, at least, didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

ANGELICA SAVED BY RUGGIERO 19TH CENTURY A ROMAN FEAST 19TH CENTURY PAN AND SYRINX 18TH CENTURY

Part of what makes a theory elegant is its power to explain much while assuming little.

Can the fundamental insight—the destructive, creative virtue of simplicity—be transposed from the realm of scientific explanation into culture or onto the level of conscious experience? What kind of formal simplicity would make our culture a deeper, more beautiful culture? And what is an elegant mind?

It might sound sentimental to say it in so many words, but we are blessed by the dead, and we know that we are, in spite of our protestations to the contrary. They leave spaces in our lives that, for some of us, are the closest things to sacred we ever know. They are there and then they are gone and, after a time, we come to see a certain elegance in that – the elegance of a magic trick, say, where the conjuror rehearses the vanishing act that we must all accomplish sooner or later.

Simplicity beats complexity

It will also tell you how easy it is to do just that: simply buy the entire stock market. Then, once you have bought your stocks, get out of the casino and stay out. Just hold the market portfolio forever. And that's what the index fund does. This investment philosophy is not only simple and elegant. The arithmetic on which it is based is irrefutable. But it is not easy to follow its discipline. So

the elegant structure of the world serving us as a kind of mirror, in which we may behold God, though otherwise invisible.

Quayle himself was a surprisingly elegant man of sixty winters or more. (One might equally have said "sixty springs" or "sixty summers," but that would have been inaccurate, for Quayle was a man of bare trees and frozen water.)

O great wide beautiful wonderful World With the wonderful waters around you curled And the beautiful grass upon your breast O World you are beautifully dressed.

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But you're out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful.

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

Beauty lives with kindness.

Truth is beauty

Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

Splendor awaits in minute proportions.