Top 378 Elaborate Quotes & Sayings

For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.

The last thing in the world I want to do is marry. I am too selfish, but I won't elaborate on that.

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

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

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.

Ashwin and I don't like elaborate weddings, so we had a court marriage.

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.

I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.

I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

I just go out and sing my songs. I don't put on elaborate stage shows with ridiculous fancy dress.

Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

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

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

The lie is elaborate and exact.

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.

Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

We're pretty much Luddites when it comes to demos; we don't do anything too elaborate or high-tech.

Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

I get a lot of people asking if my hair is a wig because it is in an elaborate style. I assure them it is all my own.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate!

Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery).

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

When I was a child, I used to help my mother decorate our house and prepare an elaborate spread of pretty lamps and flower rangolis.

I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

Radio affords you the opportunity to pontificate and elaborate extensively.

Every Christmas, I cook an elaborate Mexican dinner.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

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

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

People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.

We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

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.

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.