Elaborate Quotes
215 Elaborate quotes by 192 unique authors
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
— Lev Grossman
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Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
— Ally Carter
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Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention,…
— Mary Oliver
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money,…
— Abraham Verghese
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Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile…
— Karen Marie Moning
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He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to…
— Erin Morgenstern
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As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that…
— William Butler Yeats
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He shook his head. “No. Because there's no one else out there who understands you like I do.†I waited for more. “That's it? You're…
— Richelle Mead
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Every time I think I’m getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me excruciatingly aware that…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I love him so very much. As Romeo did Jugurtha, as Pyramid did Thirsty, as-" "Oh, please, no need to elaborate further," interjected Alexia, wincing.…
— Gail Carriger
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I figure if there is a God, he or she isn’t paying attention to what we build or if we follow some elaborate rules, but…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing…
— Veronica Roth
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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
— Marisha Pessl
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Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it…
— Joss Whedon
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Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
— Isaac Asimov
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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over…
— John C. Maxwell
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Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their…
— Alison Gopnik
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When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.
— David Chang
Who Wrote These Elaborate Quotes
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