I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.
I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.
Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it; tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn't diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.
There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.
This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
What makes a champion is not how elegantly you start, but how strongly you finish. . . !!
Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.
Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.
I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years. . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.
Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones
I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
