Elaborate Quotes

215 Elaborate quotes by 192 unique authors

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
I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to… — Adrian Belew
It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I… — Robert Conrad
Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a $1.35 trillion cut,… — Jon Stewart
The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about… — P.J. O'Rourke
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain… — Benjamin Graham

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