Quotes of: Elaborate Keyword

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 an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

Deborah Harkness

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Joseph Priestley

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Norman Mailer

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

E. V. Lucas

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

Isaac Mayer Wise

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

J. B. Priestley

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

Henry James

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

Night Film

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

Nicholas A. Christakis

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

Norman Lamm

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

David Chang

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Pablo Picasso

I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.

Pierce Brosnan

I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts.

John Cena

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

Abhishek Bachchan

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

Tyler Knott Gregson

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

Timothy Noah

Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.

Lee Siegel