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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

Since the Devil is in the details...
I don't think I'll elaborate. — Alan VanMeter

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

I had to get out of this before I was killed with some elaborate cutlery. — Rachel Hawkins

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

I wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness. — Jodi Picoult

My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. — Patti Smith

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

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. — Meg Rosoff

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

I started dancing in my room ... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there. — Kyle Abraham

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

There is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun. — Gish Jen

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

The simple gift of giving becomes an elaborate rich aftertaste of a natural blissful feeling, lingering endlessly in my lifetime. — Wes Adamson

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

The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years. — Greg Gutfeld

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

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

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

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature. — Aristotle.

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

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. — J.B. Priestley

An elaborate watch may deserve more for a second-hand look — Priyavrat Thareja

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data. — Peter Norvig

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

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

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows. — Isaac Asimov

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

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo. — Peter Farb

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

he expects me to elaborate. Boundaries. These damn people need boundaries. "So no boyfriend, but you're not a virgin?" he prods, seeming to delight — C.M. Owens

In fact, the terrors that stem from our elaborate civilization may be far more threatening than those that primitive people attribute to demons. The — C. G. Jung

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

(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word). — Philip Roth

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

The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face. — Mikhail Naimy

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

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

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

It was colorful and elaborate - Kayla's website, not the puke — Robin Brande

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

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

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

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies. — Mel Gibson