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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse. -- David Hume
I'm happy with embellishment in a chunky Prada-esque way, but I'm not into sequins! -- Ashley Madekwe
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment. -- Charles Darwin
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments. -- Vera Wang
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. -- Bruce Lee
When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment. -- Emmylou Harris
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence. -- Gerolamo Cardano
I've always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed. -- Christian Louboutin
The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it. -- Claude Bernard
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence. -- Friedrich Schleiermacher
Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels. -- Robert M. Price
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it. -- Ernest K. Gann
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not necessary, but so very nice. It's Him...It's priceless to discover the pleasure of His company...May your home know something of all this glory during these days. -- Jack W. Hayford
On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art. -- Isabel Fonseca
If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to have the option to mix inside a big studio, but at the end of the day, it comes from an original spark, which often happens while sitting on the couch. -- Hudson Mohawke
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal? -- George Bancroft
Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes. -- Robert Aris Willmott
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such. -- Jane Austen
But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts. -- Louise Erdrich
Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment. -- Boyd K. Packer
At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment. -- George Washington
...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days. -- Henry James
While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look. -- Stephane Rolland

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