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Quotes About Elegant

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
~ Jack Jones
louche, wearing a gauzy neck scarf and
~ Susan Wiggs
Emshwiller stepped out of the pickup wielding a matte-black rifle with a large scope (it was actually an airgun that fired 6.26-mm slugs). She was wearing her most elegant blue dress and a backward baseball cap. "I wanted to look freaky," she says.
~ Joshua Davis
Turn right up ahead," he directed. "It'll take us directly to my cottage." She did as he asked. "Does your cottage have a name?" "My Cottage." "I might have known," she muttered. He smirked. Quite a feat, in her opinion, since he looked sick as a dog. "I'm not kidding," he said. Sure enough, in another minute they pulled up in front of an elegant country house, complete with a small, unobtrusive sign in front reading, MY COTTAGE
~ Julia Quinn
Honestly, I think Lily Collins and Felicity Jones. I think they're very classy, they're elegant, they're British, and they really inspire me because they're incredible actresses.
~ Millie Bobby Brown
Just for a moment it reminded not-Triss of drawings she had seen in magazines and on book jackets, of pastel-colored parties where languid, fashionable women slunk and posed, slim and elegant as fish, and gentlemen passed them flutes of fat-bubbled champagne. The impression did not last long, however. The scene around her was too jarringly and robustly real. The accents were all too Ellchester, and some of the girls had knobbly ankles.
~ Frances Hardinge
Louis Latour Pinot Noir 2009.
~ Blair Howard
he's a fine, fine horse
~ Michael Morpurgo
I love it when people make things look fun and easy. Guys like Dane Reynolds and Kelly Slater and Pedro on a skateboard, they're never forcing it.
~ John John Florence
I really love this city above any I've ever been in; it is dear and graceful and elegant and what one makes it.
~ Sylvia Plath
not from her dress. Possibly a sweater or outergarment of some kind
~ T. Jefferson Parker
What could be a happier gift in a companion than a quick, fanciful mind which saved one repetitions and reflected one's thought on a polished, elegant surface?
~ Henry James
There was an odor about him which I could not help but be aware of. It was a mélange of bay rum, wet ashes and tabac gris , tinctured with a dash of some elusive, elegant perfume. Later these would resolve themselves into one unmistakable scent—the aroma of death.
~ Henry Miller
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
~ John Olver
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.
~ Gretchen Rubin
James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.
~ Edward Hirsch
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.
~ Justin Peck
There are a couple of scenes in David Lynch's 'Dune' that I loved - again, small things but inspired and elegantly done.
~ Jamie Hyneman
His movements could be called catlike, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
~ Terry Pratchett
I worry I broke your kneecaps when I cut you down. I keep hearing that sound. We fly from the world, right, like shrapnel angels, but why is everything so laden around here? Your legs were elegant, and you crossed them elegantly, not like a boy pretending his jewels were too big.
~ Karen Green
I've found my calling, and it isn't being a sidhe-seer. It's running a bookstore, especially one that carries the best fashion magazines, pretty pens, stationery, and journals, and has such an upscale, elegant atmosphere. It embodies all the things I always wanted to be myself: smart, classy, polished, tasteful.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Las noches, estrelladas y solemnes, parecían altivas damas en terciopelos enjoyados.
~ Herman Melville
Oak Hill is a classic golf course. There aren't a lot of tricks to it.
~ Ernie Johnson Jr.
As far as trucks, the great thing about a Range Rover is if you're going out for a dinner, even a black tie event, you can take the Range Rover.
~ Luke Goss