Elaborated Quotes

#1. No amount of photography could replace the memories of a life lived, of lives observed and known, of lives elaborated in the mind and on the page.

M.G. Vassanji

#2. I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

Norman Lamm

#3. The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.

Michael Chekhov

#4. Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.

Walter Isaacson

#5. Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.

Lee Siegel

#6. Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.

Mason Cooley

#7. Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men have elaborated an explanation for their situation in life ... Their rationales are endowed with moral qualities.

Robert E Lane

#8. What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.

Michel Foucault

#9. Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Joseph Conrad

#11. husband, Alan, has encouraged me from the start and early on saw what needed to be elaborated upon, refined and honed. Without his guidance and encouragement, the project would have been a much lesser thing. Isabel

Isabel Jackson

#12. It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#13. To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

Minoru Mori

#14. Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls
... The prophetic soul,
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.

Matthew Arnold

#15. What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.

Slavoj Zizek

#16. The primal substance of our thoughts is an extremely rich gathering of information that's accumulated, exchanged, and continually elaborated. Even

Carlo Rovelli

#17. THE TECHNIQUE of a little individuality will be a little technique, however scrupulously elaborated it may be.

Robert Henri

#18. Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

Tracy K. Smith

#19. Go live ITM." ITM?" In the Mo," Beth elaborated.

Michele Jaffe

#20. It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

Wilfred Bion

#21. Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast.

Keith Miller

#22. Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Plato

#23. A nation which receives a culture ready made, and not elaborated by itself, condemns itself to intellectual sterility; at most it can only hope to imitate well.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#24. In which the meaning of myth, its value and expression are elaborated

Anonymous

#25. But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

Asa Gray

#26. You will tell me what you know now," he said.
"Or?"
He said nothing, so I elaborated. "See, this kind of threat usually has an 'or' attached to it. Or an 'and'. 'Tell me and I'll allow you to live' or something like that.

Ilona Andrews

#27. All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers.

Ole H.

#28. Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.

Jon Landau

#29. 'The X-Files' from the beginning was a very visual show, and with Bob Mandel directing the pilot and Dan Sackheim being involved in the production of the pilot and directing the first episode, they brought a visual style to it that was elaborated on by so many good directors.

Chris Carter

#30. It was another one of his enigmatic brainteasers that he never elaborated on. I should have pressed for more, but I was too busy being swallowed up by him. I was distracted from everything, blinded by lust and drowning in his intensity. He completely consumed me.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#31. Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.

Czeslaw Milosz