Sophisticated Quotes
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.
Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.
This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.
I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.
In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.
I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous.
The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.
The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."
There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.
In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard.
Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.
A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.
What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.
My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.
I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.
My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.
Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'
I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.
I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.
I really believe in less is more. It's more sophisticated to look look and fresh and make a statement in one place.
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.
People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.
The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.
It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware beings. Don't sit around and equivocate; they'll drain you more.
Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws.
No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels.
Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.