Top 100 More Complicated Than Quotes
#1. The twins turned out well, not because of anything that Craig or his wife did but because of the kind of people they are. Good, decent people who always put the needs of their children ahead of their own. It was never more complicated than love, one generation raising a better version of the next.
Jung Yun
#2. Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
James L. Brooks
#3. It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.
Mayim Bialik
#4. The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.
Peter Higgs
#5. Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
Ed Miliband
#6. Love is not enough. Life and marriage is so much more complicated than this
Barbara Bartlein
#7. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.
Jessica Brody
#8. Eloise knew that it was so much more complicated than that. There are no trades in this life, and depression is a dark, dark doorway some people have no choice but to walk through.
Lisa Unger
#9. Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Lawrence Durrell
#10. It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
Jon Meacham
#11. The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.
Megan Smolenyak
#12. Sometimes it's harder than you think. There's always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality. Sometimes it's more complicated than just wanting something and making it happen.
Kandi Steiner
#13. We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#14. There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
Morgan Freeman
#15. Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
Maxim Gorky
#16. But I could never make friends again truly, neither in my heart nor in my head. When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst. But it was more complicated than that.
Ernest Hemingway,
#17. A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.
John Irving
#18. People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.
Mary Baker Eddy
#19. Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
Yael Grobglas
#20. The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like ... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.
Moby
#21. God can prevail and bear wonderful fruit from an unequally yoked couple as we will see, even though their lives are often more complicated than they had to be.
Beth Moore
#22. Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing - or more complicated - than it is today.
Sharon Salzberg
#23. You ever wonder if it's really not more complicated than that?" I ask. "That maybe everyone else is right, and people like you and me just need to quit looking for stuff to be depressed about?" She looks up, and then back at her dirt, dismissing this stupidity without comment. When
Matthew Norman
#24. The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
Margaret Atwood
#25. A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery
#26. Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.
Cameron Dokey
#27. The sad thing is that often when you expose your secrets and become more honest with yourself, you find the reaction from the outside world is more complicated than the intense guilt you yourself have inflicted.
James Scott
#28. Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#29. Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.
John McWhorter
#30. What the new science of anthrozoology reveals is that our attitudes, behaviors, and relationships with the animals in our lives- the ones we love, the ones we hate, and the ones we eat- are, likewise, more complicated than we thought.
Hal Herzog
#31. Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.
Aleksandar Hemon
#32. The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.
Richard Neal
#33. Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
Harold Urey
#34. The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
Walther Bothe
#35. We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.
Rush Limbaugh
#36. Beauty is as beauty is. It is no more complicated than that. The moment you try to understand some things is the moment you break the spell.
Stuart Ayris
#37. The Universe is a lot more complicated than it looks from the outside.
Terry Pratchett
#38. Everything suddenly got twistier and more complicated than Mrs. Casnoff's hairdo.
Rachel Hawkins
#39. The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Real life is far more complicated than fiction.
Asif Kapadia
#41. The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.
Marjane Satrapi
#42. It's not more complicated than that," she said. "That's all there is: Does he make you better and do you make him better?" Look
Ann Patchett
#43. They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.
Gardner Dickinson
#44. Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.
Iris Johansen
#45. It's been a little tough just because we've been playing so much. Your lives are getting a little more complicated than they were straight out of college when we first started. People are starting to get married, have families and all, it becomes more of a challenge. It's not an easy lifestyle.
Barry Privett
#46. Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it.
Miles Cameron
#47. And finally, my head pressed into the pillow, I cried, because my life suddenly seemed so much darker and more complicated than I could ever have imagined, and I wished I could go back ...
Jojo Moyes
#48. If we look forward to a future in which mankind behaves rationally and avoids self-destruction, we can visualize a world that will be more complicated than the one we know today, but a world that will run better and, most of all, a world in which the individual will count for more, not less.
Isaac Asimov
#49. Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#51. To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending
Jean Baudrillard
#52. I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Rachel McAdams
#53. Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.
Parul Wadhwa
#54. Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That's right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought!
Scott Westerfeld
#55. It isn't all just kismet. Some of it is serendipity. Some of it is sagacity. A lot of it is doing the right thing simply because we can. The difference between those who don't and those who do, is that those who do, do. It doesn't get any more complicated than that.
Briar Kit Esme
#56. Sometimes things are more complicated than they seem. Sometimes what you see isn't so black and white.
Victoria H. Smith
#57. Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.
Caryl Rivers
#58. Nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.
John Henry Holland
#60. Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
Alan Guth
#61. I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.
James Patterson
#62. So many systems, so many pieces ... more complicated than the most complicated of clocks. I wonder, sometimes: are we truly one thing, one being, or many, many different things, simply dreaming they are one?
Robert Jackson Bennett
#63. For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.
Craig Claiborne
#64. My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.
Bharati Mukherjee
#65. I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#66. I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, "That's funny," or instead of smiling said, "That's interesting," or instead of saying, "You are a stupid blithering idiot," said, "Well I think it's a little more complicated than that.
Lorrie Moore
#68. The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on.
Gelsey Kirkland
#69. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
Terry Pratchett
#71. The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#72. The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.
Marion Nestle
#73. Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
W.P. Kinsella
#74. Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body ... but it's more complicated than that.
Tony Parker
#75. Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.
Paul Ekman
#76. 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
#77. One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.
Frank Rich
#78. We'll all burn in hell for this," she said. "If there is a hell." "I didn't know my father caused this." "It's more complicated than that." "Is it? We're all guilty of someone else's sins until they become our own. Then
Peter Tieryas
#79. 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
#80. The newspaper Hilda gets delivered would call me evil. The one I buy on the corner would say it's more complicated than that.
Sam Lipsyte
#81. Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.
Maurice Sendak
#82. I have made myself more complicated than I really am.
Nick Hornby
#83. A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would ever understand them.
Heather Brewer
#84. We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you stayed too long you became one of those poor bastards who had to have a war on all the time, and where was that?
Michael Herr
#85. The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of drug-addled reprobates - which maybe they were - but it turned out to be more complicated than that.
Michael Azerrad
#86. Sometimes I watch the broad comedies coming out of Hollywood and I think, 'You know, sex is a big part of people's lives, but is that really the only thing men are ever concerned about?' People are more complicated than they appear in film or television.
Josh Radnor
#87. Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.
Philip K. Howard
#88. Life had taught him about something far more complicated than justice. Its name was balance.
Carsten Jensen
#89. I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
Bill Frisell
#90. Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#91. None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes.
Anthony Doerr
#92. I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.
Ben Goldacre
#93. Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.
Stanley Tucci
#94. There's always hope. Always. You just never know what life - or death - might bring. I think we've all seen that the world is a little more complicated than we ever could have imagined.
James Dashner
#95. The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
Marie Brennan
#96. I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
Aimee Bender
#97. It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.
Suzanne Collins
#98. I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.
Aleksandar Hemon
#99. I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.
Sonny Rollins
#100. simplicity is always more complicated than it appears.
Kate Sciandra
