The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing,… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how… — Judith Light Copy Share Image
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that… — Josephine Decker Copy Share Image
The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
I first reported to our Marlins spring training complex in Jupiter as well as the other draft picks to receive physicals and… — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if… — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is… — Michael Shermer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image