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Quotes About Elaborate

It was colorful and elaborate—Kayla's website, not the puke
~ Robin Brande
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 elaborate sets and the theme of Halloween Havoc as a whole is what I think really caught the attention of the fans. Add in the explosive contests we had every year at the event, and it was definitely the perfect precursor to Starrcade.
~ Diamond Dallas Page
Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way. I think that approach is a mistake, and if we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgements. We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that — sometimes — we're better off that way.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
No era el aire miserable de aquel tipo lo que nos daba miedo, ni el tumor que tenía en el pescuezo y que el borde del cuello postizo rozaba; sentíamos que elaboraba en su cabeza pensamientos de cangrejo o langosta. Y nos aterrorizaba que pudieran concebirse pensamientos de langosta...
~ SARTRE JEAN-PAUL
the living voice of God does not sound, pomp and ceremony, however elaborately observed, are like empty phantoms. So, we should see that papacy is so much wind.
~ John Calvin
Life as we know, and partially understand it, is a classical example of what can occur when a sufficient level of complexity is attained. Consciousness appears to be a manifestation of an even more elaborate level of organization.
~ John D. Barrow
You can often tell what style someone practices merely by looking at the type of knot someone has in the front of a hakama. Some iaido schools have elaborate systems for tying their hakama. My sensei uses a simple square knot: he's mostly concerned that the knot is properly placed and doesn't come undone. It's hard to be deadly while your pants are falling down.
~ John Donohue
Showy makeup, she explained, is reserved for women who either make their living on the streets or are trying too hard.
~ Elaine Sciolino
H]istory is baroque.
~ Ariel Durant
Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.
~ Armistead Maupin
Radio affords you the opportunity to pontificate and elaborate extensively.
~ Stephen A. Smith
It's only a house, she thought. But it was more, too. It was Tibby's elaborate, respectable shrine to a family life that had long ago ebbed out of it.
~ Rosie Thomas
La guerra –violencia organizada con un propósito entre dos unidades políticas– se fue volviendo más elaborada cuando desarrollamos sociedades sedentarias establecidas y ayudó a que estas fueran más organizadas y poderosas. De
~ Margaret MacMillan
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
There were other, messier details in the story, but we didn't need to go into those now, and here.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Love I never associated with the senses, it was not even passion that I wanted; it was a conscious, subtle, elaborate sensuality, which I knew not how to procure.
~ Arthur Symons
A man of business hates elaborate trifling. "If you do not believe your own senses," he will say, "there is no use in my talking to you." As to the multiplicity of arguments and the complexity of questions, he feels them little. He has a plain, simple, as he would say, practical way of looking at the matter; and you will never make him comprehend any other.
~ bagehot walter ix
When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.
~ David Chang
I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.
~ Adrian Belew
Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the disguises and stage tricks by which acting can be grotesquely simulated.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it.
~ Sean Booth
For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
~ Craig McCracken