The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images. — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means. — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
“I had reached a level of sophistication at which I could know I was fooling myself and still fool myself.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity… — John Green Copy Share Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be… — Larry Bishop Copy Share Image
One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
A little bit independent when we dance. A little bit independent toward romance. A bit of sophistication in your glance and yet… — Fats Waller Copy Share Image
I'll admit it, the grunge trend doesn't really speak to me. I get why other people like it, but it's just not… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
“Breakfast Club, and shared the same misimpression that it was a sign of sophistication to talk about how much you loved Eames… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of… — Casey Hudson Copy Share Image
“There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
“The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
This woman says she was looking for a man with sophistication. I thought she said suffocation, and I was like — Merle Rutledge Copy Share Image
“Abbey was born to sophistication, whereas I was more Barbara than Buckingham Palace Windsor.” — Samantha Tonge Copy Share Image
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication. — Bill Budge Copy Share Image
Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
