“Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm happy with embellishment in a chunky Prada-esque way, but I'm not into sequins! — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great. — Gram Parsons Copy Share Image
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments. — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it.… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I’ve always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth,… — Ron Finley Copy Share Image
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
The inspiration starts with the armor my parents collected. The references are subtle, whether in the mix of textures (woven, quilted, pleated)… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
It wasn‟t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to… — Hudson Mohawke Copy Share Image
