Sophisticated Quotes

419 Sophisticated quotes by 374 unique authors

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle… — John Podhoretz
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. — Terry Pratchett
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through. — Miuccia Prada
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' — Sam Rockwell
Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in… — Mickey Rourke
If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not… — Karl Rove
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are… — Salman Rushdie
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go… — Alexei Sayle
I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is… — Eric Schmidt
Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was… — William Shatner
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. — Georg Simmel
My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and… — Patti Smith
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary. — Barbra Streisand
The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is… — James Surowiecki
I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up. — Kristin Scott Thomas
In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course… — Lewis Thomas
I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see. — Jessie Ware
We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're… — Cornel West
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to… — Betty White
There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot… — Donnie Yen
It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have… — Howard Rheingold
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political… — Philip K. Dick
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. — Douglas Adams
If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men… — Annie Dillard

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