Elaborate Quotes
215 quotes by 199 authors
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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
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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
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
— Orson Scott Card
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
— Raymond Chandler
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.
— David McCullough
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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... 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
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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
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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
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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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