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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
— E. V. Lucas
In a sense, the elaborate system of externalized memory we've created is a way of fending off mortality.
— Joshua Foer
Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate!
— J.K. Rowling
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
No money, no church service, no eulogy,no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit. p 354
— Abraham Verghese
In the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative the conclusion we draw therefrom ... .
— Michael Lewis
I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to fill in the blanks.
— Alan Bradley
So. Are we concocting some elaborate scheme where we pretend to be twins to get your parents back together?
— Melissa Keil
Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.
— Chester Barnard
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.
— Nicholson Baker
Of course they do. It's like an elaborate game of fetch - ow!
— Shelly Laurenston
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
— Timothy Noah
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
— Ally Carter
When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.
— Sergio Aragones
Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.
— Barton Gellman
Elaborate. Lots of things could be considered weird, so I'm not sure what you're referring to.
— Colleen Hoover
What am I more than elaborate sentience?
— Derek Parfit
Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.
— Manuel Gonzalez Flores
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.
— Cassandra Clare
Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose. — Gordon Matta-Clark
Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Cosmic Ordering is neither a religion nor an elaborate program. You have everything within you to succeed: right attitude and right intentions.
— Stephen Richards
Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.
— Edward Sapir
From what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
— Mercedes Lackey
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought
— Pablo Picasso
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
— John Eldredge
It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.
— Upton Sinclair
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
— Daniel Kahneman
The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.
— Mason Cooley
For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts.
— Elizabeth Taylor
The lie is elaborate and exact.
— John Newlove
The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.
— David McCullough
This kind of detail impressed me. It suggested a whole life of marvelous, elaborate decadence that attracted me like a magnet.
— Sylvia Plath
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.
— Paul Reiser
With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table.
— Dorothy Whipple
Only an elaborate treatise in ecology could do justice to the subject of what went wrong,
— James C. Scott
I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.
— Suzanne Finnamore
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
— Joseph Priestley
Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.
— Harold Davenport
I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.
— Dave Barry
We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.
— Leonard Mlodinow
Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them mysterious, it makes them like everyone else.
— Donna Lynn Hope
All of us have available at all times a computer far more advanced than the most elaborate artificial intelligence machine - the human mind itself.
— David R. Hawkins
An elaborate watch may deserve more for a second-hand look
— Priyavrat Thareja
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
— J.G. Ballard
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
— Raymond Chandler
Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The Serpent is wise in that it lives in immediacy, without the need for the elaborate intellectual frameworks Humankind is
— Margaret Atwood
Pressing a note on the harpsichord's keyboard would, via an elaborate mechanical action,
— Music Sales
The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.
— Carl Sagan
Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's
— Aldous Huxley
We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.
— Arthur Lewis
All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.
— Guillermo Del Toro
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.
— Philip Freelon
Sad was such a simple, damaging word. It meant so much more than its elaborate cousins.
— Sarah MacLean
Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
— Orson Scott Card
Mortals make elaborate plans, but GOD has the last word.
— Eugene H. Peterson
I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm.
— Benedict Smith
I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
— Benjamin Graham
I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
— Rachel Kushner
It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.
— Helen Van Wyk
I believe it is the sole business of government to invent elaborate impediments to swift action,
— Lyndsay Faye
Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.
— Firoozeh Dumas
I can manifest my neurotical emotions, emancipate an epicureal instinct, and elaborate on my heterosexual tendencies.
— Joyce Carol Oates
When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.
— David Chang
Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything ... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
— Abhishek Bachchan
Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
— Marisha Pessl
Mastering the Art of French Cooking ... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.
— Julia Child
I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.
— Mike Birbiglia
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
Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?
— Sue Monk Kidd
A most elaborate theory may be constructed by a devout mind.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
