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Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence. -- J. G. Ballard
Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in research must always be the mind of man. -- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. -- E. V. Lucas
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. -- Joseph Priestley
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. -- J. B. Priestley
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. -- Raymond Chandler
When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now. -- David Chang
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
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. -- Pablo Picasso
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. -- Dan Flavin
My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves. -- Amanda Hocking
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin. -- Lucian Freud
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously. -- Noam Chomsky
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control my behavior through a combination of slavish devotion and incessant howling. -- Martha Beck
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. -- Henry James
Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth. -- Martin Rees
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. -- Leonard Cohen
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident. -- Eckhart Tolle
The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways. -- Justin Rosenstein
For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted. -- John C. Maxwell
In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice. -- Vinoba Bhave
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline. -- Maria Semple
The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror. -- Karen DeCrow
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons? -- Sloane Crosley
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. -- Abraham Verghese
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work. -- Andres Segovia
I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted. -- Ina Garten
The lie is elaborate and exact. -- John Newlove
Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth. -- Marisha Pessl
Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions. -- Chester Barnard
The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach. -- Mark Frost
The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face. -- Mikhail Naimy
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. -- Daniel Kahneman
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling. -- Lev Grossman
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency -- Raymond Chandler
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature. -- Aristotle
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. -- Timothy Noah
The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China. -- Mason Cooley
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies. -- Mel Gibson
The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning. -- Carl Sagan
Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data. -- Peter Norvig
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments. -- Vera Wang
Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose. -- Nicholson Baker
Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action. -- Sergio Aragones
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not. -- Paul Reiser
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes. -- Joseph Priestley
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. -- Orson Scott Card
Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet. -- Firoozeh Dumas
We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so. -- Leonard Mlodinow
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie. -- Ally Carter
Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate? -- Helen and Scott Nearing
Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate! -- J. K. Rowling
Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem. -- Harold Davenport
I had very little involvement with 'TinTin'. Very little involvement. So I can't really elaborate on that either. -- Janusz Kaminski
Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all. -- Edward Sapir
I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities. -- Benjamin Graham
Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes. -- Barton Gellman
I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades. -- Suzanne Finnamore
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots. -- Cassandra Clare
Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo. -- Peter Farb
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise. -- John Eldredge
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. -- Meg Rosoff
I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about. -- Dave Barry
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows. -- Isaac Asimov
Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days. -- Abhishek Bachchan
Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days. -- Abhishek Bachchan
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming. -- Idina Menzel
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
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
Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery). -- John Landis
The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost. -- David McCullough
Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose. -- Gordon Matta-Clark
. . . 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
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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines. -- Gary Hamel
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 hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes. -- Sigrid Undset
Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough. -- Chai Lu
... 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
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
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. -- John Dryden
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 basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. -- K. Eric Drexler
Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning. -- Naomi Wolf
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
Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud. -- Michael Lewis
The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war. -- Wernher von Braun
Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with elaborate societies. -- Alexander McCall Smith
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. -- Paul Fry
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught. -- Eugene Delacroix
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
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
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. -- Julia Ward Howe
At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory. -- James Tobin
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. -- Edgar Allan Poe
At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory." -- James Tobin
The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama. -- Rashers Tierney
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
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. -- Darlene Zschech
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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. -- John Dewey
There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity. -- Joseph Addison
With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato. -- Karl Popper
As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices. -- Masiela Lusha
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games. -- Alan Dean Foster
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity. -- Albert Camus
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. -- Elvis Costello
A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing. -- Zanjabil
I'm touched, Rixon. A bomb. How elaborate. Why didn't you keep things simple and just march inside my bedroom one night and put a bullet between my eyes?" Nora, Crescendo -- Becca Fitzpatrick
In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm. -- Joseph Addison
Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone. -- Louisa May Alcott
You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know. -- Mike Leigh
The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese. -- Marion Woodman
When we came to America, the movies here needed a "new wave." European films looked totally different than American movies, which were these lush, glossy pictures with this elaborate production design. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
I try not to make conscious decisions about what I am looking for. I don't make elaborate preparations before I go to a location. Essentially I walk, explore, discover and photograph. -- Michael Kenna

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