All Quotes

Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.
‐‐ Robin Wright

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
‐‐ Coco Chanel

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.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
‐‐ Philip Treacy

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.
‐‐ Mary Shelley

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
‐‐ Diana Vreeland

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

Elegance is refusal.
‐‐ Coco Chanel

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.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

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

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

Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.
‐‐ Mike Gordon

Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.
‐‐ Karl Ferdinand Braun

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
‐‐ Oliver Sacks

Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).
‐‐ Dmitri Mendeleev

Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.
‐‐ Mark Shand

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
‐‐ Andy Rooney

Elephants are contagious.
‐‐ Paul Eluard

Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.
‐‐ Peter Beard

Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.
‐‐ Richard Leakey

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.
‐‐ Mark Shand

Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often resulting in deaths on both sides.
‐‐ Mark Shand

Elevate those guns a little lower.
‐‐ Andrew Jackson

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.
‐‐ Martin Filler

Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.
‐‐ David Horsey

Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.
‐‐ Dominique Dawes

Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!
‐‐ Kate Winslet

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
‐‐ Ethel Waters

Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.
‐‐ John Culberson

Eliminating hunger in America is doable, because we have the resources to do it.
‐‐ Howard Graham Buffett

Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.
‐‐ Howard Coble

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
‐‐ Gerry Mulligan

Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
‐‐ Iman

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.
‐‐ Phil Crosby

Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
‐‐ Kailash Satyarthi

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
‐‐ Laura Trott

Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president.
‐‐ Joy Behar

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
‐‐ Marie Windsor

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun