"I am only a mouthpiece through which to……" — Ida B. Wells

More Embellish Quotes

This quote is filed under Embellish Quotes, one of 28 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force,… — Vladimir Lenin
• Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people… — Cassandra Clare
• Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears… — Denise Levertov
• The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up.… — Donna Tartt
• Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of… — Eliza Farnham
• The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows… — 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… — 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… — Frank Hardy

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