The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I… — Rachel Skarsten Copy Share Image
Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow. — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I've always been attracted to more intense and darker roles, but I think there is complexity and darkness in comedies as well. — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
There is salvation - happiness and virtue - in beauty. I would define beauty in this context as a kind of richness,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“The complexity of the resulting signalling network in the brain is almost unimaginable: one hundred billion neurons each with one thousand synapses,… — Michael O'Shea Copy Share Image
For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity,… — Padmasree Warrior Copy Share Image
All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of… — Adi Shamir Copy Share Image
“As a subject of behavioral study, nest architecture offers an appealing feature that practically no other behavior offer; namely, the nest is… — Walter Tschinkel Copy Share Image
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game,… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I hate it when people say Fuck love!!! No hunny, fuck the person who made you think that way. Love is beautiful… — Feliciano Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Power, for the writer…lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image