Quotes with elegant

  • What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

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  • Bruce Oldfield I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alexander Herzen Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
    Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Josh Billings Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Vivienne Westwood It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
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  • Carolina Herrera Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Plato Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Carl Sagan The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Cosby We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
    Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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