#elaborate

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat. ↗

— Ted Allen

#biggest #biggest mistakes #cook #days #elaborate

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#departure #elaborate #idea #more #point

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#communication #elaborate #less #means #more

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. ↗

— Joel Coen

#again #characters #dialogue #elaborate #fairly

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

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

#because #elaborate #further #graphics #haven

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

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #human

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives. ↗

— Bill Condon

#certain #certain actors #double #elaborate #except

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