Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are…

I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of…

— Hope Larson

“[Over breakfast] We discussed the 'novelisation' question. This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as Sense and…

— Emma Thompson

“Even the most fanciful story contains nuggets of truth. As readers, our job is to mine them.”

— Michael Gunter

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws.

— Gary Kleck

I think audiences are quite sophisticated.

— Lynne Ramsay

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the…

— Annie Dillard

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

— Jane Goodall

Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into the relationship…

— Rudolph Ballentine

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that…

— Suzanne Farrell

Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really…

— Michael Dickinson

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local…

— Edward Brooke

We always want what we don't have, and I'd like a long, sophisticated nose rather than a short, turned-up one.

— Darcey Bussell

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the…

— William Shakespeare

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

— Marc Ostrofsky