“Postpone, not because you are being lazy. Postpone, only because you want to appear in a grand style.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower, — Paul Budnitz Copy Share Image
Through the international hotel empire, the Hilton name has become synonymous with class and sophistication. — Jerry Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. — David Shuster 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
As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to… — Ernest Hemingway 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
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted.… — Steven Pinker 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
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've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness… — David Small Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is always the working out of things, and you have to have sort of a gut response to it. And an… — Andy Summers 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
Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break… — Bob Dylan 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 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
The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No… — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
“with a Latin saying that sophistication is born out of hunger (artificia docuit fames).” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium. — Rand Beers Copy Share Image
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the greatest sophistication. … be simple... be sophisticated... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Abbey was born to sophistication, whereas I was more Barbara than Buckingham Palace Windsor.” — Samantha Tonge Copy Share Image
Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics… — Wendell Berry 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
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
The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
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
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