Elaborately Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
— Saul Bellow
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention…
— Northrop Frye
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It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting…
— Charles Darwin
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Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers…
— Richard Dawkins
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I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre…
— Milton Glaser
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The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once…
— F L Lucas
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There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the…
— Ray Kurzweil
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New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.
— Henry James
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Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.
— Samuel Prout
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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness…
— Wendell Berry
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They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into…
— Toni Morrison
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And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was…
— Ian Mcewan
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I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.…
— Frank O'Hara
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Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled…
— Alan Huffman
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Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had…
— Deborah Harkness
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Indian ancient literature refers to this inner commitment as a sankalpa; and deals with it elaborately. The inner commitment is all the more important because,…
— T Joseph Benziger
Who Wrote These Elaborately Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Elaborately Quotes as follows: