To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Anyone who hasnt experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

I am from the planet of elegance.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

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

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

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.