Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting. — Stephen Metcalf Copy Share Image
The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of… — William F. Schulz Copy Share Image
It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing… — Craig Johnston Copy Share Image
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are… — Toni Collette Copy Share Image
Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about… — Hazel Rochman Copy Share Image
I've used a lot of jersey, but I've also done a lot of complex pattern weaves in these fabrics in solid colors,… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet."… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women. — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform. — Carl Bereiter Copy Share Image
The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer. — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world. — Sjon Copy Share Image
Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions. — Amitai Etzioni Copy Share Image
If you have a complex life, make it simple; if you have a simple life, continue it that way! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric. — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex. — Walter Bender Copy Share Image
Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
