Elaborate Quotes

• One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it, is contraception. I came across someone who articulated very clearly that one of the things which makes our approach to Buddhist practice in regards to sex different these days than it was in Buddhist times, is the simple existence of reliable contraception, which is a no brainer but I missed really addressing it in the book.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Sex

• Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Women
  • Color
  • Inspired

• In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Completes

• I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it will be four hours later and it will feel like it's been five minutes. I think that adds depth to your being, when something in your life can do that for you. Everybody should try to find something in their life that can do that for them. People find really elaborate self-destructive ways of killing time on this planet. That's why they take drugs or drink, trying to alter their state of being. If you can find something that doesn't destroy you, but deepens your character, you're really lucky.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • People
  • Self-destructive
  • Elaborate

• The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Judgment
  • Sufficient
  • Elaborate

• He Sam wrote it with great flourishes, his hand making many dizzy elliptical journeys before it settled down to make a elaborate 'E' with a curving tail as long as some prehistoric baboons.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Journeys
  • Elaborate
  • Baboons

• The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

  

  Joseph Priestley
  • Common Sense
  • Less
  • Elaborate