#elaborate

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#bible #deal #elaborate #facts #freedom

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

— Orson Scott Card

#elaborate #elite #fall #intellectual #obviously

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

#animate #discouraged #elaborate #grace #invites

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

#blessed #bring #cathedrals #celebrating #concentrations

It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe. ↗

— Robert Conrad

#elaborate #every #gadget #gun #had

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

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #find

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. ↗

— Robert Welch

#balances #checks #elaborate #feature #form

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

— Sergio Aragones

#character #elaborate #established #expressions #go

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #human

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

#bedtime #coffee #course #definitely #dessert