Elaborate Quotes

215 Elaborate quotes by 192 unique authors

I started dancing in my room... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I… — Unknown Author
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project… — Noam Chomsky
The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married… — Russell Smith
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks:… — Martin Rees
An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone,… — John Battelle
My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control… — Martha Beck
I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal. — Pierce Brosnan
We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so. — Leonard Mlodinow
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along… — Robin Wasserman
The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that… — Roxane Gay
In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an… — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when… — Joel Coen
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers… — Bjarne Stroustrup
At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic… — James Tobin
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. — Joseph Priestley
Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with… — Alexander McCall Smith
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are… — Abraham Verghese
I think that there is a sharp contrast for most people between life at university, where they meet lots of people, and the moment when… — Michel Houellebecq

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