Quotes About Complicated

#1. Dig down into the blood depths of hormonal bedrock, where violence and sex and power grow fibrously entwined. It's a murky, complicated place down there. No telling what you'll drag up once you start excavating.

Richard K. Morgan

#2. Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new things once in a while, but have your tried-and-true pieces that work.

Lauren Hutton

#3. Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Philip Greenspun

#4. Which is my favourite book??
Very complicated question... so far... I think that the question should be "My favourite books...!".

Deyth Banger

#5. Love's so complicated, Noah, isn't it?" I

Jandy Nelson

#6. It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.

Anna Ford

#7. I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.

Dylan Moran

#8. Everything's going to be fine. Sooner or later you're going to find someone who knocks you right off your feet. Someone who makes you feel alive. Someone who kisses you and makes your knees weak. Relationships are complicated enough as it is. It's not worth settling for anything less.

Lindsey Kelk

#9. Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#10. Some things in life are just to complicated to explain in any language.'
Olga was absolutely right, Tsukuru thought as he sipped his wine. Not just to explain to others, but to explain to yourself. Force yourself to try to explain it, and you create lies.

Haruki Murakami

#11. For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing.

Lady Gaga

#12. There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

Leon Kass

#13. Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Ron Taffel

#14. She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#15. Come on," Cole said. He looked back over his shoulder at Mr. Brisbane, who was looking at me with a complicated expression as I left. Cole pointed at him and said, "You're a son of a bitch. He belongs here more than you do.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. It is sometimes difficult to motivate yourself every day, and friendships and relationships might not be in the places you want them to be. Sometimes life might not unfold as we had hoped it would, and although life can seem complicated, it can also be good.

Lynette Ferreira

#17. I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.

Chris Albrecht

#18. We didn't have sex."
"What?" Cale blinks at her.
"We just talked."
Talked. Like ... talking? "That isn't a euphemism for some complicated sex act I don't know about, is it?

Dominique Frost

#19. I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.

Poul Anderson

#20. It was soaring, that voice, warm and complicated, utterly fearless.

Ann Patchett

#21. You have this weird look on your face," he said. "Like you're doing really complicated math in your head.

Rachel Hawkins

#22. Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store:
You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

Elizabeth Warren

#23. We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.

Alice Dreger

#24. Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

Romola Garai

#25. Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#26. An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Joseph Conrad

#27. Want is quite a complicated word there, because there's volo, which means I want, but it's not usually used with people. Desidero? I feel the want of, I desire. Amabo? I will love. But what if I will never love? What if I will never desire? What if I will never want?
Numquam amabo?

Ali Smith

#28. I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

Paul Auster

#29. No one tells you that it hurts this much to be a grown-up. That people are so complicated they end up hurting each other to self preserve.

Tarryn Fisher

#30. Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#31. Nearly all web publications are driven by the display model, which is in turn driven by page views. But we all know the web is shifting, thanks to mobile devices and the walled gardens they erect. The new landscape of the web is far more complicated, and new products must emerge.

John Battelle

#32. I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

Sirio Maccioni

#33. Reality is always too complicated - that's why it's ungraspable.

Pedro Juan Gutierrez

#34. Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

A. N. Wilson

#35. I think I'm a lot more complicated than my looks might indicate.

Tim Daly

#36. It's as simple and complicated as this: If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

Brene Brown

#37. I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

Mel Gibson

#38. The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

Daniel H. Wilson

#39. Friendships were so damn complicated, so bound with sharp edges that could jab a hole through you at any given point.

J.D. Robb

#40. My family barbecued a lot; good barbecue is more complicated than you think.

Manish Dayal

#41. He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It's as simple as that, and as stupid and complicated. It's terrible. It's like knowing someone you love is dead but not having the body to prove it. He loved me. I know it.

Roddy Doyle

#42. For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

Henry David Thoreau

#43. Finally, I'd like to thank my readers for staying with me all these years. I especially want to thank the ones who understand that the world isn't made up of happy endings, but messy, complicated, and untidy ones.

Lisa Lutz

#44. Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

John C. Maxwell

#45. In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

Alexander Kotov

#46. We're going to have robots in the home, but they're not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they're supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them.

Colin Angle

#47. A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.

Rick Bass

#48. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.

Amy Poehler

#49. It's easy to be complicated but very difficult to be simple.

Debasish Mridha

#50. [Incomplete people] are complicated and sensitive and messy in their reactions

Lysa TerKeurst

#51. Life was radical right after I met the monster.
Later, life became harder, complicated.
Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a riptide,
Walking the wrong direction in the fast lane of the freeway,
Waking from sweetest dreams to find yourself in the middle of a nightmare.

Ellen Hopkins

#52. The executed men were cursed, and praised, and doubted, and despised, and held to account, and blackened, and wondered at, and mourned, all in a confusion complicated infinitely by the site of war.

Sebastian Barry

#53. Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

Gayle Forman

#54. This is too complicated. What about I shoot him? If he comes back, he really likes me.

John Ringo

#55. Dante and this Palero were definitely playing some sort of game, and I didn't know the rules, which was fine with me. Whenever a game became too complicated, I just set the board on fire.

Kenya Wright

#56. History as well as life itself is complicated
neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Jared Diamond

#57. Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

Marjorie Garber

#58. Death was easy. Life was complicated.

Callie Hunter

#59. The sulker is a complicated creature, giving off messages of deep ambivalence, crying out for help and attention, while at the same time rejecting it should it be offered, wanting to be understood without needing to speak.

Alain De Botton

#60. Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them.

Cesare Beccaria

#61. Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

Tom Robbins

#62. The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

Theaster Gates

#63. I'm not making it complicated, I'm just looking at it less simply.

Gregory S. Close

#64. I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

Malcolm Gladwell

#65. There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

Bill De Blasio

#66. 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

#67. There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

Jimmy Carter

#68. Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

Adrian Grenier

#69. The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

Bruce Lee

#70. Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.

Dan Fogelman

#71. Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven't been clever enough to reduce 'it' to its essence.

Phil Dourado

#72. You haven't created a new body for me. I'm electricity, or light, or whatever bullshit you said I am. Just some complicated programming.

Brad McKinniss

#73. Jesus Christ, Noah, it's like you want it to be complicated. Win the girl. Then keep her. Don't let her go. Get it straight. One of us needs to get it right and, out of the two of us, you're the one who has a shot.

Katie McGarry

#74. If we look at things as they are instead of giving them our own shape and colour, life will be less complicated

Santosh Joshi

#75. My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

Aubrey De Grey

#76. Just like existence itself, the dream was complicated and absurd.

Kirk Vonnegut

#77. Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

Douglas Adams

#78. I feel most people's sexuality is enormously complicated. That's what it means to be human. Wouldn't it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn't it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?

Janet Jackson

#79. I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

Sinead O'Connor

#80. The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#81. Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.

Rebecca Taylor

#82. I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

John Irving

#83. I always thought it would get easier to be a person as I aged. But it just gets more and more complicated.

Jim Butcher

#84. Mending a broken heart isn't easy. It's messy and complicated, but when it's finished, it's stronger than ever.

Megan Duke

#85. The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire.

Frank Warren

#86. The probability of direct confrontation increases with the aggressiveness of the enemy. So, rather than try to outbid the enemy with complicated schemes, one should, on the contrary, try to outbid him in simplicity

Carl Von Clausewitz

#87. I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.

Michael Patrick King

#88. Lies are complicated. The truth is simple.

Rick Yancey

#89. What makes me think I could start clean slated?
The hardest to learn was the least complicated

Indigo Girls

#90. I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

Donald Dunn

#91. Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.

Scott Adams

#92. All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Hugh Prather

#93. I opened the door of her car and helped her in. Her breast leaned against my shoulder heavily. I moved back. I preferred a less complicated kind of pillow, stuffed with feathers, not memories and frustrations.

Ross Macdonald

#94. What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.

Jason Schwartzman

#95. Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

Walter Kirn

#96. I'm tired of hearing about how complicated your life is. Life is not that complicated. Either you like someone or you don't. Either you are true to them and your heart or you aren't. Pretty simple, actually.

Courtney Cole

#97. The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Henry Ford

#98. I believe being strong means I can kiss you and still fight my enemies and succeed. I can show emotion and be complicated and hope for love and family and friends in a world that is telling me I can die tomorrow.

Alicia D'Aversa

#99. To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

Bruno Munari

#100. complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.

Steve McConnell