Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.

- Barton Gellman

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

- David Chang

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

- E. V. Lucas

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

- Gary Hamel

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

- Leonard Mlodinow

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.

- Mike Leigh

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

- Roxane Gay

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

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

- Sergio Aragones