“Postpone, not because you are being lazy. Postpone, only because you want to appear in a grand style.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower, — Paul Budnitz Copy Share Image
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy… — David Zucker Copy Share Image
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication.… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do… — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected,… — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
I don't want to rescind American directors but I think that European directors in general, because of the size of the nations… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication. — Bill Budge Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing in the mechanical world that matches the sophistication, complexity, and multi-tasking ability of the foot” — Michael Sandler Copy Share Image
When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No… — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. — David Shuster Copy Share Image
Through the international hotel empire, the Hilton name has become synonymous with class and sophistication. — Jerry Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight… — Iain Glen Copy Share Image
“Breakfast Club, and shared the same misimpression that it was a sign of sophistication to talk about how much you loved Eames… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
If your career is not predicated on just your physical beauty, you're able to project a sophistication. You can take sophisticated to… — Christine Baranski Copy Share Image
I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
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