I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most… — Seymour S. Kety Copy Share Image
We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Beware of people preaching simple solutions to complex problems. If the answer was easy someone more intelligent would have thought of it… — Steve Herbert Copy Share Image
I like to play complex characters and the duality, and trying to reach for the light, it's more interesting really. I've gotten… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All of these concoctions that we think are Mexican, are in no way reflective of the deep, incredibly old, complex and sophisticated… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline,… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
The artist-muse relationship is romantic and passionate, and complex, and I would imagine that would be a hard relationship to have if… — Kate Bosworth Copy Share Image
I'm trying to set out the passion and complexity of this sport. Many people think it's a dumb activity: stand on the… — Janet Guthrie Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred.… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
This is a collaboration between a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer. It sounds like a joke,… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The most basic act of awareness or knowing that we can demonstrate in science. I postulate that that is the very basis… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality,… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image
A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
As someone who was gay bashed as a kid, I learned firsthand how a lot of people only feel good about themselves… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
Beauty is a complex theme, for sure. We all have a different concept and opinion regarding it, but we all like to… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation… — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody… — Suzanne Cory Copy Share Image
I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
