Graceful Quotations

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

It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple of goals here and there, but I wasn't the most graceful thing you've ever seen.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.

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

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

'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.

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.

The people in the party wanted to give him a graceful exit and he wouldn't let them." ()

The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you can't top it, laugh at it. If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

She's tough beyond words. She has a brilliant stick. It's one of the greatest sticks you'll ever see. But she also has great height and is strong physically. She's as graceful on her feet as any player you'll see.

She's as composed and graceful and confident as I've seen in any 17 year old. But it's hard to come off that big a win and keep the momentum going. It's so much easier to get there than to maintain that level of success.

She's graceful and dynamic, and has beautiful lines. The way she presents herself on the events is just incredible. She's a beautiful gymnast, but she's also a beautiful person, inside and out.

She offered that if I resign now, they will give me a graceful exit. Well, I said I will accept the offer of graceful exit in the year 2004 ... that's the tenure the nation gave me and I have to finish that,

Most other companies in this space use a basic Web server model where you bring up a Web page and it simply refreshes to reflect a change in status. From a software standpoint, that's slower and much less graceful than using Web Services.

Imagine an artificial arm that moves naturally in response to your thoughts, that allows you to feel both the outside world and your own movements, and that is as strong and graceful as an intact, biological limb.

Given the experiences he had, for him to reach adulthood and be pretty well adjusted and be thought of almost universally as a pretty nice and graceful guy, that is not a bad accomplishment,

Given the space, we've proven we can play soccer. I wonder if we can continue to play graceful soccer when we're under pressure. I think we'll be able to adjust.

He was always graceful in the way he handled his guests, ... He always talked about substance. He never made snide remarks.

He?s a very graceful athlete. Not too many athletes can get their body to flow and bend in that manner. It was a big-time athletic movement.

It has a clean and simple style to it; very simple. It has a nice, graceful shape. I was told it captured the personality of that duck.

I think the military would benefit by a change in civilian leadership, but I think it's important that we are cautious in how we effect that change. I think ... (Rumsfeld) should be encouraged to retire. I think he has done a number of good things for the military, particularly prior to Iraq, and we have to recognize the whole career of the person and acknowledge what he has done that is good and allow him to have a graceful retirement.

Parcells and I have learned a lot of things during a lot of years since we first met. But being graceful about losing has never been one of them.

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.

Just how graceful he moves and how athletic he is, he was very impressive in the game, just playing with a lot of confidence and savvy.

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.

We want to develop a battery that has a graceful failure - meaning that if it's damaged, it won't cause other problems. We have to understand how batteries fail and why they fail.

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.

We're going to be focused on the last days of life, making it as meaningful and as graceful for the patients and their families as possible.

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

Fellow Americans, here lies a graceful and a gallant man,

Is it as meticulous and graceful as a human touch would be? No, it's not,

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.

Ryan is the exact opposite of that. He's one of the more graceful divers I have seen.

The Mir has lived a wonderful life and must end it in a graceful way,

This combination of useful technology and luxury features will appeal to a wide range of customers who value high levels of safety, quality, performance and comfort in a graceful and elegant vehicle,

A lot of people think since she is this thin, graceful athlete, she's doesn't want to get physical. Her attitude is, 'You hit me, I'm coming right back at you.' That's what she did today.

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. I 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.

It's just a joy to see somebody finish his last act in such a graceful way,

It wasn't graceful by any stretch of the imagination. It was like a heavyweight prize fight.

It speaks volumes as to the guy he is in terms of persevering. Coming (into the NFL) as a nice-looking, graceful tight end, and then being shifted to offensive guard -- and even tackle -- that speaks to his character and dedication.

Youth, beauty, graceful action, seldom fail:/ But common interest always will prevail.

It's much more computer driven, so that hopefully now judging can't be corrupted as easily. But the other side is the obvious things like jumps and spins end up being rewarded, so skaters who may be more graceful and less athletic might not get as many points as the athletic skaters.

It was not going to be a graceful symbol of the past. It was going to try to restore the river.

A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a great-aunt or uncle, whose existence he has scarcely heard of.

In general, fans do not want to see a rumble. They want to see the most graceful game on the planet. Contact occurs, and our objective is to make sure the game is played safely.

If you're not a bird watcher you won't be very excited, though gulls are graceful in flight and striking in appearance. If you're a bird watcher this makes you weak in the knees.

He's an extremely graceful athlete. He's a player with an excellent first touch and great vision. He has very good attacking qualities. But we've seen him in what I would call an amateur level.

Her ballet instructor said she loved Leah and she was very graceful but she didn't have the patience for ballet. She said (Leah) needed to be moving constantly. She recommended figure skating.

Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!

A pretty little graceful fellow, too small and delicate to be rapacious.