The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. — George Santayana 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
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
The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means. — Brian Crozier 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
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images. — Tibor Kalman 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
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
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
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
I'm working for a woman, not a lady. What I hate the most is that "lady" talk. You know, when I read… — Tomas Maier 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
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
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
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
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
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
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try… — David Foster Wallace 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
“The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
