Quotes About Sophisticated

#1. We pitched 'Sightseers' as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like 'Dexter' came out, 'Breaking Bad' ... There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them.

Alice Lowe

#2. Cassini is different
it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

Carolyn Porco

#3. Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

Alan Sugar

#4. It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

Margaret Mahy

#5. The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

Gaspard Ulliel

#6. The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.

Elliott Abrams

#7. Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

Malcolm Wallop

#8. Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

John Maeda

#9. The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.

Jim Henson

#10. The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.

Mary Gaitskill

#11. I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap.

Jennifer Lopez

#12. Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

Ben Bernanke

#13. Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

Antonin Scalia

#14. I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

Aaron Sorkin

#15. I think voters are very sophisticated, very strategic. They know that Hillary Clinton can be beaten. And so they will look at Donald Trump, and they will look at Marco Rubio, they will look at Ted Cruz, and maybe John Kasich and say, "Who can beat her? Who's the best matchup?"

Hugh Hewitt

#16. Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.

Marc Ostrofsky

#17. Detective, have you ever considered the fact that violence is the recourse of the uncivilised man?" Skulduggery looked back. "I'm sophisticated, charming, suave and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilised.

Derek Landy

#18. When we stopped in front of it and turned off the engine, we heard music coming from inside - jazz. It sounded sophisticated and lonely. We

Denis Johnson

#19. Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly.
Build an eye.

Warren Ellis

#20. It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Erma Bombeck

#21. The Waorani carry out a similar diet with their arrow poison, called curare or, in their language, oomae. This is another amazing product of the indigenous science, a most sophisticated technology that the Waorani extrapolated from an ancient myth.

Jonathon Miller Weisberger

#22. Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.

Peter Capaldi

#23. Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.

Giorgio Armani

#24. Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#25. Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

Donald A. Norman

#26. Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it,

Leatrice Eiseman

#27. Documentary: That's a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear ... The term should be documentary style ... You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

Walker Evans

#28. What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

Anthony Holden

#29. My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old woman. I want to be Maggie Smith someday. Not exactly like her, but that genre. I like that kind of humor - sophisticated, vain stuff.

Jackee Harry

#30. It was the earring. Laurent was always so austere. The earring reframed him. It gave the appearance of a sensual side, sophisticated and subtle.

C.S. Pacat

#31. Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic - a totally streamlined organization in which we developed plans rationally and carried them out with utter precision. I never thought for a minute that was really the case.

Thomas J. Watson

#32. She [Hillary Clinton] used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.

James Comey

#33. I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

Ritchie Blackmore

#34. Melbourne is very sophisticated and edgy - we wear a lot of black. Things are lightening up a little bit, but truly, everything looks good in black.

Jessica Hart

#35. Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.

Bruce Beutler

#36. 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.

Daniel Alarcon

#37. Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#38. 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

#39. As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

Baruj Benacerraf

#40. The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.

Charlie Trotter

#41. Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.

Frederick Lenz

#42. A person's beauty is sophisticated and sacred and is far beyond image, appearance or personality.

John O'Donohue

#43. Today it is even more important to dominate the ... highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.

Adolf Galland

#44. The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars.

Bryant McGill

#45. You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown.

Jeff Foxworthy

#46. Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it.

Donald A. Norman

#47. 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

#48. Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.

John Palfrey

#49. The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

Jennifer Stone

#50. If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals
then what wasn't?

Annie Dillard

#51. It is a curious fact that the more sophisticated we become the simpler grows our speech.

George Eliot

#52. Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt.

Ray Fitzgerald

#53. And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

Michel De Montaigne

#54. I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#55. Capturing ideas and input will become more and more critical as your life and work become more sophisticated. As you proceed in your career, for instance, you'll probably notice that your best ideas about work will not come to you at work.

David Allen

#56. I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.

T.C. Boyle

#57. Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

Maggie Q

#58. Simplicity is the most sophisticated complexion and the reason why man begins with it, is because that is the instinct which she/he was born with. It is the mark of purity (contrary to Jew Covenant and Roman Baptism beliefs) which were given to her/him by God in the womb.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#59. Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.

Terry Teachout

#60. Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Jimmy Chamberlin

#61. But as with all skills, the most sophisticated techniques tend to have their foundation in the simplest of principles. As

Josh Waitzkin

#62. I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.

Robert E. Cushman Jr.

#63. When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.

Andre Benjamin

#64. I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

Suzanne Farrell

#65. For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#66. Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated creature, man. Yet man has the ability to resolve this paradox through his intellectual power and creative faculties.

Hubertus Strughold

#67. My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

Anton Du Beke

#68. Sophisticated and complicated and able to color-coordinate a room like you wouldn't believe. I craved him with a bone-deep lust I'd once reserved exclusively for Godiva truffles.

Molly Harper

#69. Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

Jeff Hawkins

#70. The toughest feeling is when you need to be emotionally sophisticated.

Upasana Banerjee

#71. I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#72. I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

Natalie Imbruglia

#73. Each of us is born with a built-in GPS, God's Positioning System, a sophisticated navigational package that divinely aligns us with people and events and keeps us from losing our way.

Squire Rushnell

#74. You go after crude, rabble-rousing chancers like Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, rather than sophisticated theologians like Tillich or Bonhoeffer who teach the sort of religion I believe in.

Richard Dawkins

#75. The Cold War's end pushed disarmament down most leaders' agendas. It's a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It's not visceral. It's not like a starving child.

Michael Douglas

#76. There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.

Ben Goldacre

#77. The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.

Colin Ward

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

Nathan Seiberg

#79. I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.

Aly Raisman

#80. The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

Peter Malkin

#81. Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine.

Eric Kandel

#82. We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

Arlo Guthrie

#83. Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#84. Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

Criss Angel

#85. We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#86. The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

Alfie Kohn

#87. I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

Linda Hunt

#88. Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.

Dave Barry

#89. All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.

Willis Harman

#90. I got body snatched by an alien." McClane grumbled a protest. "A sentient alien armor and weapons system," Riley clarified. "Very sophisticated. Very unique. Very much a smartass. His name's McClane

J. Fally

#91. Science suggests that intuition or whole-body learning is a real form of intelligence, and it works on a far larger scale than most of us have ever realized. It may be difficult to describe and is not always easy to get in touch with, but it can process information on a more sophisticated level.

Marcia Conner

#92. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#93. Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Michael Johns

#94. 'Backwash' is an old-school, slapstick-y romp between three eccentric loser friends who inadvertently rob a bank, armed solely with a salami and a sweat sock, and then find themselves on the run pursued by singing cops. It's kind of a classic piece, a sophisticated piece, if you will.

Joshua Malina

#95. This son of mine..is entirely sophisticated and quite charming- but delicate- we're all delicate; here, you know.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#96. I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

Marion Cotillard

#97. The two stormtroopers might not have been tactically sophisticated, but they had been good shots.

Alan Dean Foster

#98. The people the Quran describes have a deep and sophisticated knowledge of the Biblical Tradition.

Tom Holland

#99. I didn't want to, even in my imagination, even for a second, to conflate this sophisticated woman with my mother, a woman so frugal and clueless that she had once given me - to have! to know! to wear! - her stretch black lace underwear that had shrunk in the dryer, though I was only ten.

Lorrie Moore

#100. There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

Brian Ross