Complicated famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
-- Adrien Brody -
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
Politics is far more complicated than physics.
-- Albert Einstein -
I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
-- Alex Katz -
Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.
-- Alexandra Potter -
To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
-- Alice Paul -
It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.
-- Allan Sandage -
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?
-- Anat R. Admati -
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.
-- Andrew Tobias -
No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
-- Andy Grove -
I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.
-- Ann Druyan -
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
-- Arnold Palmer -
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Why do you have to go and make Things so complicated...
-- Avril Lavigne -
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
-- Barack Obama -
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
-- Barbara Bush -
I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
-- Barry Lyga -
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.
-- Ben Goldacre -
It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.
-- Bill Reid -
Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
-- Blake Mycoskie -
But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
-- Bob Cousy -
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
-- Bob Woodward -
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
-- Boris Pasternak -
Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.
-- Bradley Cooper -
I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn't matter anymore.
-- Brenna Yovanoff -
You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.
-- Brian Cox -
Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.
-- Brit Marling -
When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it
-- Bruno Mars -
To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.
-- Bruno Munari -
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.
-- Cameron Dokey -
Women are complicated. We all know that.
-- Candice Swanepoel -
Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
-- Carolyn Hax -
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.
-- Carroll Quigley -
Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.
-- Caryl Rivers -
Sometimes, the word ‘voluntary’ is a little complicated…
-- Cass Sunstein -
I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
-- Charles Cumming -
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.
-- Charles Frazier -
No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!
-- Charles M. Schulz -
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; ...
-- Charles Mingus -
Making the complicated simple is true creativity.
-- Charles Mingus -
We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think....
-- Charles Yu -
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?
-- Charlie Sheen -
Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.
-- Chelsea Cain -
That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
It really is not that complicated, I just don’t understand HOW people don’t grasp the concept of ‘Free Market’, and why left alone, it WORKS!
-- Curt Schilling -
There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.
-- Danica McKellar -
Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
-- David A. Bader -
It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
-- David Boies -
He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.
-- David E. Hoffman -
Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.
-- David Levithan -
It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
-- David Levithan -
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
-- David Lynch -
People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesnt make them good people or bad people.
-- David Zayas -
It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.
-- Deborah Tannen -
The more technology becomes complicated inside, the more it has to be simple outside.
-- Derrick de Kerckhove -
Life is as simple or complicated as we make it.
-- Donna Smallin -
I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
-- Dorothy Allison -
Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?
-- Dorothy Hodgkin -
All of those guys who told me that I was too short and how complicated the game was, it is not that complicated. It is the same game I have always played.
-- Doug Flutie -
It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
-- Edie Falco -
There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
-- Edie Falco -
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
-- Edward G. Begle -
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
-- Edwidge Danticat -
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention,
-- Eileen Wilks -
It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
-- Eleanor Clift -
Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.
-- Elena Anaya -
We are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.
-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey -
Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
-- Elizabeth Kostova -
There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.
-- Elvis Costello -
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
-- Erich Maria Remarque -
Why do relationships have to be so complicated?
-- Erin Hunter -
As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.
-- Erin Merryn -
I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.
-- Eugene Jarecki -
I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.
-- Eugene Jarvis -
It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
-- Faith Hill -
Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.
-- Frank Stella -
Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.
-- Frederick Lewis Allen -
We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
-- Freeman Thomas -
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.
-- Gardner Dickinson -
She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
-- Gertrude Stein -
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.
-- Giorgio Moroder -
It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.
-- Guillaume Musso -
Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow -
95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.
-- Hans Zimmer -
Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
-- Harold H. Greene -
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
-- Haruki Murakami -
It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you.
-- Heidi Baker
