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" About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. "

" A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. "

" Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. "

Claes Oldenburg

" Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler? "

" Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. "

" Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder. "

" Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be. "

" Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. "

" Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt. "

Donatella Versace

" Elegance is elimination. "

Cristobal Balenciaga

" Elegance is inferior to virtue. "

" Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. "

" Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. "

Edsger Dijkstra

" Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. "

" Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. "

Carolina Herrera

" Elegance is refusal. "

" Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. "

" Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way. "

" Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted Valentino to design my wedding dress. Valentino is the definition of timeless elegance. I don't think there's another couture house like it. "

" Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance. "

" I am from the planet of elegance. "

" I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder. "

Douglas Coupland

" I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years. "

" I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic. "

" I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around. "

" I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black. "

" I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions. "

" I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own. "

" I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' "

" If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! "

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