Elaborate Quotes

215 Elaborate quotes by 192 unique authors

But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the… — Dave Barry
Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and… — Walker Evans
This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged.… — Israel Regardie
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your… — C. Wright Mills
The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate,… — Marion Woodman
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. — E. V. Lucas
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down,… — Andres Segovia
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively… — Michio Kaku
Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet. — Firoozeh Dumas
The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the tiny, fuzzy screen to huge â€˜entertainment centersâ€™ 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

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