Zitat des Tages über Verschönern / Embellish:
People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
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.
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
I just find things that work and embellish 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.
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.
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.
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.
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.
My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump.