Elaborate Quotes

215 Elaborate quotes by 192 unique authors

The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the tiny, fuzzy screen to huge ‘entertainment centers’ covering… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose. — Unknown Author
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof… — Isaac Mayer Wise
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal… — Gaston Bachelard
I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the… — Van Day Truex
She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose… — Raymond Chandler
The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural… — Harlan Lane
Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data. — Peter Norvig
Among the cognoscenti, though, it is not just about elaborate new flavors. I always consider the main test of ice cream to be the simple… — Jeffrey Steingarten
Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate, emotionally rousing, or… — Unknown Author
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's… — Terrence Rafferty
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which… — Peter Greenaway
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. — Dan Flavin
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is… — Rollo May
By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick… — John F. Kennedy
This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in… — P.J. O'Rourke
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature… — Russell Kirk
Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish. — Julia Child
Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it… — Robertson Davies
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in… — Roger von Oech
The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning. — Carl Sagan
In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as… — Oswald Chambers
My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process… — Patti Smith
Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days. — Abhishek Bachchan
Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how… — Jen Hatmaker

Who Wrote These Elaborate Quotes

192 authors contributed a total of 215 Elaborate Quotes, led by these top contributors: