Embellished Quotes

#1. So not only was it possible to implant false new memories in the brain, but people embraced and embellished them, unknowingly weaving fantasy into the fabric of their identity.

David Eagleman

#2. Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

Horace Mann

#3. Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.

Winston S. Churchill

#4. Lying is an art. A good lie shouldn't be embellished so much.

David Eddings

#5. We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

Ellen Goodman

#6. Myths arise from actual events, remarkable events that get talked about precisely because they are remarkable and which then get embellished in the retelling.

Matthew Reilly

#7. I read books, I ate when compelled, I sometimes wrote embellished accounts of my day in a leather-bound black diary. I was the sort of child who generally had to be coerced into playing with other children.

Danielle Evans

#8. What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.

Andrew Jackson

#9. The truth is the earth's most perpetual commodity. The lie can be painted as wished, embellished in gold and silver, too. False witnesses and false truths can be provided to support it. But only the truth is unchanging.

Diana Khalil

#10. There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the true account and, embellished with iridescent lies, beguile them.

Pindar

#11. I like what Proenza Schouler is doing. I also love the Miu Miu chunky embellished shoes and really like Prada as well.

Ashley Madekwe

#12. I'd gone out into the world, intricately lacing distractions and busywork around the long-gnawing emptiness, only to find I'd merely embellished rather than hidden it.

Edward Fahey

#13. I've relived that moment so often in my head, I can never be sure what really happened and what we only embellished afterward. But does it matter? We make reality our own, handle it until it is as soft as pressed butter.

Lauren Oliver

#14. I think a girl always needs a cardigan, and I tend to go for the sparkles. I have a minimum of 50 embellished cardigans. I'm not a believer in less is more; I'm sort of a believer in more is necessary.

L'Wren Scott

#15. And, as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy.

Jennifer McMahon

#16. I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

Jean Giono

#17. Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#18. An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.

Brad Goreski

#19. It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

Albert Einstein

#20. If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.

Baron D'Holbach

#21. When Beethoven made sharp response to a letter from his brother Karl, who embellished his signature with the phrase "land-owner," the composer added "brain-owner" to his own autograph.

Russell Sherman

#22. I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

Neal Barnard

#23. When a woman wants to look festive, she should add some shine, sheen or sparkle to her outfit, like a metallic clutch, an embellished shoe, or a blingy statement necklace.

Clinton Kelly

#24. Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.

Kristin Armstrong

#25. Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love.

David Levithan

#26. AIR grew out of our early thinking about rich Internet applications around 2001. We started to see web developers pushing the boundaries of what could be done inside the browser and taking advantage of Flash in ways that we hadn't expected.

Kevin Lynch

#27. The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself ... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

Fay Weldon

#28. tragic Powell, the Company Man Who Could Have Been Great, who was offered the mantle by all the polls but deferred to the Boss's Callow Son and vouched for him,

Garrison Keillor

#29. If we have a food supply that we can't trust, that has enormous implications for the way we view government, for the way we trust business, and for our international trade relations.

Marion Nestle

#30. I remember Julianne Moore talking about acting and she said, "I'm just looking for truth. When people watch, they're not looking to see me. They're looking to see themselves." That's one of my new favorite sayings

Ryan Hurst

#31. The golden door of harvest for the planet, it felt so ready to be opened ...

Tahira Amir Khan

#32. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Abel Ferrara