Elaborate Quotes

215 quotes by 199 authors

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant… — Vinoba Bhave
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out… — Geraldine Brooks
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. — Orson Scott Card
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler
I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts. — John Cena
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work… — Leonard Cohen
Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose… — Nicholas A. Christakis
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the… — Joseph Wood Krutch
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual… — Cyril Connolly
The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of… — Denise Richards
The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost. — David McCullough
We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of… — Bruce Alberts
The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in… — Carlos Barrios
Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of… — Tim Birkhead
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than… — Joel Davis
Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. — Manuel Gonzalez Flores
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more… — Gish Jen
I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest… — Sybille Bedford
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and,… — Othniel Charles Marsh
Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

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