Embellish Quotes

28 quotes by 27 authors

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and… — Vladimir Lenin
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of,… — Cassandra Clare
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by… — Ida B. Wells
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted… — Denise Levertov
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I… — Donna Tartt
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being… — Eliza Farnham
The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different… — Bill Roorbach
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. — Kate Smith
I just find things that work and embellish them. — Lindsey Buckingham
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. — Alfred North Whitehead
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some… — Samuel Johnson
Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it. — Vincente Minnelli
The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory is clouded with… — Frank Hardy
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship… — Donna Rice Hughes
In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth,… — Hubert H. Humphrey
I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to… — Leo Buscaglia
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer… — Amy Hempel
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can… — Philip Johnson
People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts. — Joey Santiago
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people… — Bob Woodward

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