Sophisticated famous quotes

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir

#Weapons #Sophisticated #Defeated

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
-- Alan Furst

#Writing #People #Sophisticated

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
-- Ann Brashares

#Book #Adults #Sophisticated

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
-- Anne Lamott

#Taste In Music #Reggae #Sophisticated

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Sophisticated #Reason #Enough

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Sarcastic #Sophisticated #Exuberance

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
-- Bill Joy

#Sophisticated

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor
-- Brendan Fraser

#Technology #Actors #Sophisticated

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
-- Brian P. Cleary

#Unnecessary #Sophisticated

Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves
-- Bruce Lee

#Moving #Unnecessary #Sophisticated

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
-- Carla Bley

#Bakers #Sophisticated #Mulligans

I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.
-- Cary Grant

#Might #Sophisticated #Type

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.
-- Denise Mina

#Sophisticated #Enough #Reader

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.
-- Dianne Wiest

#Intelligent #People #Sophisticated

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.
-- Dominick Dunne

#Party #Sophisticated #Ritual

Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.
-- Don Bluth

#Smart #Sophisticated #Enough

There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.
-- Donald McCaig

#Dog #Calm #Sophisticated

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Essence #Cotton #Sophisticated

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.
-- Gaspard Ulliel

#Sophisticated #Chic #Slender

We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
-- George Brandis

#Needs #Stories #Sophisticated

You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.
-- Gianni Versace

#Women #Dresses #Sophisticated

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.
-- Gideon Raff

#Country #Israel #Sophisticated

If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it’s accessible to everybody, and don’t get simple mixed up with simplistic, it’s how you mount and present something that makes it engaging.
-- Gordon Willis

#Simple #Ideas #Sophisticated

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
-- Hans Hofmann

#Art #Sophisticated #Superficial

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
-- Haruki Murakami

#Revenge #Sophisticated #Form

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
-- Hugh Hefner

#Childhood #Sophisticated #Connected

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
-- Jane Goodall

#Thinking #Language #Sophisticated

My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.
-- Jason Wu

#Cat #Sassy #Sophisticated

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Cat #Cities #Sophisticated

I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.
-- Jil Sander

#Self #Kind #Sophisticated

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.
-- Jim Rohn

#People #Trying #Sophisticated

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Sophisticated #Chickens #Deals

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.
-- Kenneth Tynan

#Rivals #England #Sophisticated

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Sports #World #Sophisticated

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.
-- Linda Hunt

#Sophisticated

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.
-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Simple #Cheese #Sophisticated

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.
-- Margaret Spellings

#Education #Might #Sophisticated

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.
-- Marion Cotillard

#Thinking #Sophisticated

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.
-- Maureen Dowd

#Wisdom #Sophisticated #Pranks

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
-- Mike Leigh

#Thinking #Film #Sophisticated

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Want #Messages #Sophisticated

I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.
-- Nathan Seiberg

#Space #Illusion #Sophisticated

I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do.
-- Nicole Richie

#Dresses #Littles #Sophisticated

I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.
-- Norma Shearer

#Girl #Interesting #Sophisticated

When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.
-- Richard Branson

#Decision #Analysis #Sophisticated

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.
-- Richard Eder

#Character #Energy #Sophisticated

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
-- Robert Doisneau

#Imagination #People #Sophisticated

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
-- Robert Fripp

#Views #World #Sophisticated

The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.
-- Roberto Benigni

#Comedy #Sophisticated #Divine

I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more.
-- Sam Allardyce

#Thinking #Sophisticated #Coaches

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.
-- Sheridan Smith

#Play #Sophisticated #Slappers

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Sophisticated #Accepting #Form

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
-- Sophia Loren

#Knowing #Mature #Sophisticated

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.
-- Stella Benson

#Heart #Cities #Sophisticated

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Vulnerable #Sophisticated #Building

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
-- Terry Pratchett

#Taxation #Way #Sophisticated

Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.
-- Carl R Trueman

#Taken #Use #Sophisticated

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
-- K'naan

#Sophisticated

Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.
-- Mark Walton

#Country #World #Sophisticated

Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.
-- Martin Gilbert

#Sophisticated #Salesman

His home life is as ordered and complex and sophisticated as his work life. You don't find creations like this anymore. The Leopard comes to mind - this tale of a glorious, lost Italy. That's Valentino.
-- Matt Tyrnauer

#Home #Mind #Sophisticated

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.
-- Oliver D. Crisp

#Christian #Argument #Sophisticated

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
-- Bette Lord

#Chinese #Religion #Sophisticated

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.
-- Robert Heller

#Business #Action #Sophisticated

The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.
-- Freedy Johnston

#Musician #Sophisticated #Pops