Elaborate Quotes
215 Elaborate quotes by 192 unique authors
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Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue…
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only…
— Ray William Johnson
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I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow…
— Jessica Lynch
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Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.
— Peter Farb
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It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision,…
— Peter York
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Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking…
— A. P. Herbert
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I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled our roots, ties,…
— Paul L Wachtel
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There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound…
— Joseph Addison
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which…
— Roger Scruton
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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean…
— David Viscott
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
— John Dryden
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Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We…
— John Dos Passos
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We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have…
— Stephen Leacock
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species.…
— Alan Dean Foster
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner,…
— Ina Garten
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Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
— Mel Gibson
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Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up…
— Sloane Crosley
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