Quotes About Elegance

He wants those who can appreciate beauty to be able to surround themselves with beautiful things;

And, capable, created in his mind,Eventual victor, out of the martyrs' bonesThe ultimate elegance: the imagined land.

The villages slept as the capable man went down, Time swished on the village clocks and dreams were alive, The enormous gongs gave edges to their sounds, As the rider, no chevalere and poorly dressed, Impatient of the bells and midnight forms, Rode over the picket docks, rode down the road, And, capable, created in his mind, Eventual victor, out of the martyr's bones, The ultimate elegance: the imagined land.

So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple." Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

There are only about 400 people in fashionable New York Society. If you go outside that number you strike people who are either not at ease in a ballroom or else make other people not at ease.

The elegant simplicity of Square (and that of Dorsey's earlier creation, Twitter) is a product of rigorous inquiry: Dorsey maintains that good design is about removing unnecessary features by continually asking, Do we really need this? and What can we take away?

Their neatly barbered hair and tailored coats and silk ties contrasted strikingly with

Mrs. Ellis opened her black alligator pocketbook and took out a black cigarette, which she lit with a black enameled Dunhill lighter. She pecked, sucked, blew smoke.

Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.

He wore tight red slacks and a white shirt. His body, I could see, was impeccably shaped.

The scarecrow never loses its elegance."

Just around the corner in every woman's mind - is a lovely dress, a wonderful suit, or entire costume which will make an enchanting new creature of her.

3 East 84th still looks both fitting and fresh. It also looks familiar: the limestone

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

Beauty like hers is genius.

Nature is most beautiful in its movement: wind, water, the sinking sun.

Using fantasy as metaphor, wryness rather than bluntness, never escaping a certain gentility in approach

Dashiell Hammett

It was thinner than a portrait painter in Constantinople...

smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them. Gallin

I remembered Nero telling me once that smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them.

She appeared eventually in an enormous pair of black sunglasses and a flimsy cotton dress that insinuated everything and said nothing

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.