Sophisticate's Quotes

#1. She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#2. There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Ronald Reagan

#3. If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

Debora Spar

#4. I may wear the skin of an urbane sophisticate, but in this manuscript I invite you to strip it off and laugh at my stupidity.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#5. Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate" 'til the day I die.

Emo Philips

#6. Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

Ethel Merman

#7. In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

Maimonides

#8. When you feel depressed and you wanta go here, wanta go there, remember Mind Essence; the world, like dreams, will never come true. Operate on Intuition, Rest and Be Happy. It's all in your head what happens so you might as well think happiness.

Jack Kerouac

#9. In my twenties in San Francisco I became a sophisticate and an acting agnostic. It wasn't that I had stopped believing in God; it's just that God didn't seem to be around the neighborhoods I frequented.

Maya Angelou

#10. The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle],
And made his torch their universal light.
So truth, while only one suppli'd the state,
Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.

John Dryden

#11. I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

Billy Joel

#12. Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#13. It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

Julia Cameron

#14. Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

Wendell Berry

#15. Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.

Sara Genn

#16. Too touristy a move for such a sophisticate as moi? Of course. But there is a reason certain activities become touristy, no? My

Harlan Coben

#17. Donald Trump tweeted out to the world a quote allegedly from Senator Tom Coburn impugning my honesty. Within hours, Tom Coburn came out publicly and said, "That quote was an utter fabrication."

Ted Cruz

#18. Would we, if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relation with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property.

Whitley Strieber

#19. True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

Louis Kronenberger

#20. Whatever is missing is what you're not giving.

Derek Rydall

#21. What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#22. Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

Jonathan Sacks

#23. Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.

David Buss

#24. This seemed like one of those make-it-or-break-it moments where you have to consciously choose to do the right thing. Or be bad.

Alyssa Goodnight

#25. On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

H.L. Mencken