Sophisticated Quotes · Page 26

It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There…

— Camille Paglia

These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly…

— E. O. Wilson

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have…

— David Foster Wallace

The average person can’t really trust anybody. They can’t trust a broker, because the broker is interested in churning commissions. They can’t…

— Seth Klarman

I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form,…

— Andrew Bird

My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by…

— Ryan McGinness

If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and…

— Annie Dillard

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and…

— Val Kilmer

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

— Bill Gates

Even happy situations can easily start to feel miserable. So, I think that people who consider themselves sophisticated or who are in…

— Mary Gaitskill

“The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears.…

— Peter Marshall

I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency…

— Tony Abbott

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against…

— Justin Rosenstein

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

— Henry David Thoreau

There seems little doubt that sophisticated techniques have now reached the stage where, if murder is desired, a killer, once programmed and…

— Sirhan Sirhan

Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

— Robert Fisk

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of…

— J. L. Austin

These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a…

— Mike Tyson

I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated,…

— Sally Jessy Raphael

Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a…

— Russell Smith

All of these concoctions that we think are Mexican, are in no way reflective of the deep, incredibly old, complex and sophisticated…

— Anthony Bourdain

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

— Thomas Pynchon

The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.

— Bertie Carvel