Elaborate Quotes

215 Elaborate quotes by 192 unique authors

Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I… — Walt Whitman
The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre… — Wernher von Braun
Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines… — Dave Barry
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all… — Oscar Wilde
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved,… — Margaret Mead
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon… — Albert Camus
I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in… — Nikki Reed
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my… — Jonathan Lethem
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child… — Anne Sullivan Macy
You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a… — Mike Leigh
For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really… — Craig McCracken
You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is… — Douglas Hofstadter
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody… — Bill Condon
Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action. — Sergio Aragones
Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to… — Paul Feyerabend
I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about. — Dave Barry
My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about… — Amanda Hocking
What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking -… — Tony Hale
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at… — Ezra Heywood
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract… — Ada Lovelace

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