Elaborate Quotes

215 Elaborate quotes by 192 unique authors

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every… — Anne Sullivan Macy
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a… — Hilary Mantel
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming. — Idina Menzel
The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole… — Howard Nemerov
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. — Pablo Picasso
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. — J. B. Priestley
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. — Meg Rosoff
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.… — Eckhart Tolle
A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a… — Will Wright
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and… — John Dewey
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for… — Noam Chomsky
A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy… — A. J. Jacobs
. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone. — Mercedes Lackey
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather… — Heidi Julavits
There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always… — Nicholas Sparks
I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people,… — Joan Didion
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence. — J. G. Ballard
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed… — John Irving
Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing… — V.S. Naipaul
our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why… — Malcolm Gladwell
But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more… — W. Somerset Maugham
Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries… — A. E. Housman
Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has… — Gaston Bachelard
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame
The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face. — Mikhail Naimy

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