Quotes on the topic: Graceful


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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.


Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.


No one teaches you how to be graceful.


I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.


The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.


I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that.


A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.


I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don't think I have ever been as klutzy as when I'm on set. People call me 'Grace' ironically because I'm not graceful. It's ridiculous.


I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.



Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.


All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.


We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.


One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.


Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.


Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.


Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.


I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.


Tuscan sausages are smaller than their American cousins, each one demarcated with a string, a graceful loop drawn tightly into a knot - looping and tightening, looping and tightening, a symmetrically floppy, aesthetically appealing rhythm.