Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower, — Paul Budnitz Copy Share Image
“The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight… — Iain Glen Copy Share Image
When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy… — David Zucker Copy Share Image
Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year.… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure… — Nelson Shanks 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
The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
For all the sophistication of GPS, there still remain numerous problems with their use. The most obvious problem in this context is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
“Even in her casual white shirt and cotton pants, she was clearly an independent woman in charge of her destiny. She was… — Jan Moran Copy Share Image
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it,… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision… — John Medina Copy Share Image
“She was white, wore perfume and smiled openly with the Negro customers, so I knew she was sophisticated. Other people's sophistication tended… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to… — Peter Middlebrook Copy Share Image
I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth… — Helena Norberg-Hodge Copy Share Image
Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. — George Will Copy Share Image
For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my… — Taylor Hawkins Copy Share Image
Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
