Graceful Quotes

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size – so graceful.

Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are – to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.

I think the best privilege that I have in terms of having them as my parents was not just the doors that opened, but, I think, the stability to be graceful in the face of rejection, which is something that actors get every single day, and knowing it’s not personal and not having that be part of your psyche.

I’ve tried to be graceful and I’ve tried to make sure my arguments are grounded in reason and insight.

I am not graceful.

You know that feeling when your leg falls asleep and you can’t really feel it or move it? Well, that’s what my legs feel like all the time, so being fluid and graceful has been difficult.

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

‘Workin’ Moms,’ obviously, is about mothers who also work. But we’re also expected to remain graceful when we return to work, and that’s just impossible.

The story was such that I couldn’t make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn’t want to. So, it isn’t the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I’m pleased with it anyway.

There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over – and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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.

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.

Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.

I adore saris. I feel they’re very easy to carry. They’re not only sexy and graceful, but you can also style them the way you like best.

If you don’t know Tom Lehrer, you should – in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

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.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren’t coming because of a mixture of things: because I’m not ambitious, and because I’m older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.

When dancing for mass numbers, you can throw your hands and legs anywhere, but contemporary dance is a whole different ball game. Every move has to be pointed, graceful and must look elegant. It’s not easy trust me, but is a lot of fun nevertheless.

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

I’ve been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.

‘Death with dignity’ is our society‘s expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life’s last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature‘s ongoing rhythms.

I am going to oblige all my TV commitments, and if films work out, I will make a graceful exit.

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I’m physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don’t think I’d look graceful at all on screen.

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

I’m focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I’m powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.

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

Frying is essentially a drying process. Batters and breadings are formulated to dry out in a particularly graceful way.

I have never been graceful, never been elegant.

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven‘t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.

In Hebrew, the name Susan means ‘graceful lily‘ – in Khmer, it means ‘girl with the bad puns,’ and in ancient Aztec, it translates as ‘she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.’

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

A camel is a very awkward animal to ride, and it’s very hard to get used to because they’re not very graceful.

Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.

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

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

I remember watching Audrey Hepburn dancing in movies, and I was inspired by how graceful she looked, though I understand it was no easy task.

If I could adopt any zoo animal, it would be a giraffe. I have always loved giraffes. They are so graceful and beautiful to watch.

Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.

Simplicity and honesty make a person most graceful, but in today’s world, they are overrated.

There’s a time and a place for everything. There’s a time to sleep, wake up, there’s a time to be graceful, and there’s a time to be aggressive.

Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome – a city, as a young Winston Churchill once wrote, where ‘anything might happen.’

For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination – she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people’s wishes.

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.

No one teaches you how to be graceful.