Sophisticating Quotes

#1. The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.

Jacques Barzun

#2. Shatter your pride in dust to vanish into the joy of longing and love.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I caught the eye-candy of my life and then what?Unable to break the spell I'm all enchanted now!

Myself

#4. I see nothing to fear in inner space.

Yeshe Tsogyal

#5. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.

Ayn Rand

#6. I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

Louis C.K.

#7. I realize the selfishness of children. We love them, and we revolve around their universe, but they don't revolve around ours.

Brunonia Barry

#8. Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

Greg Kinnear

#9. And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.

Elena Ferrante

#10. Either your clothes died when you did, he thought, or maybe you just mentally dressed yourself from force of habit.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I had been as sober as the day of a court-ordered drug test

Katie McGarry

#12. I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

Dick Wolf

#13. I'm not a quitter.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. This tea is for people who really appreciate tea. Ordinary tea is for anyone.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

Lauren DeStefano

#16. I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

Ruud Gullit