Words matter. These are the best Embellish Quotes from famous people such as Rabih Alameddine, Leslie Jordan, David Russell, Lindsey Buckingham, Amy Hempel, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I always say show me a storyteller who doesn’t embellish, and I’ll show you a bad one.
I talk about things that happened in my life. Now, do I embellish? Absolutely. Come on, we all do it. It makes for a better story. But it always comes from a germ of truth.
If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It’s way too simple.
I just find things that work and embellish them.
Obviously, in journalism, you’re confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it’s in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
Bobby Heenan did what every announcer should strive to do and that is to make talent bigger stars than they are and to embellish every talent’s TV persona.
We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
People do ask, ‘Are you going to embellish this stuff?’ I wouldn’t change any of my guitar parts.
I have had enough of an interesting life to not embellish it in any way.
My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump.
I’m a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
I like people to be honest and transparent. It bothers me when people feel the need to embellish stories to make themselves look better.
There’s a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It’s the most potent part of the body to embellish.
Broadcasting is a team effort and two, or three, individuals not functioning as a team cannot be as effective as they can if they set aside their own agendas and focus on what they see on their TV monitors and embellish the TV personas of the talents involved. I’ve been blessed to have had many outstanding partners.
As a black woman, there’s so much pride and communication through hair. It’s naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be creative about.
Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.
Because somebody plays guitar, why does it mean they need a singer? Because people already have this image of things? No, I’ll put my music together, then think about whether I need to embellish it with a singer.
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
