Embellish Quotes
28 Embellish quotes by 27 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
— Kate Smith
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I just find things that work and embellish them.
— Lindsey Buckingham
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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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
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Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.
— Vincente Minnelli
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
— Joey Santiago
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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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The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling…
— H. L. Mencken
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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the…
— Julian Barnes
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We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is…
— Pema Chodron
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But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my…
— Anais Nin
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My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump.
— Erin O'Connor
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