Sophistication Quotes

123 Sophistication quotes by 112 unique authors

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out. — Yael Naim
There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV. — Vera Farmiga
Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear… — David Krieger
Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper. — Irwin Edman
The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable, in which we… — Percy Williams Bridgman
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. — Christopher Hampton
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images. — Tibor Kalman
Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those… — Peter York
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium. — Rand Beers
Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed… — Cheech Marin
Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work… — Bill Watterson
It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds… — Lawren Harris
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up… — Steve Jobs
With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born… — John Paul Caponigro
If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident… — Quentin Crisp
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the… — Alfred North Whitehead
When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it. — Vera Farmiga
I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No… — Roger Ebert
The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. — Jim Henson
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 happen really fast. — Ang Lee
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. — Norman Mailer
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their… — Joni Mitchell
Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted… — Steven Pinker
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. — George Santayana

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