Best 427 quotes in «complicated quotes» category

The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of drug-addled reprobates - which maybe they were - but it turned out to be more complicated than that.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

There are complicated processes going on in society in the Crimea. There are problems of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian population, the Russian population, the Slavic population in general, but this is Ukraine's domestic political problem.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that are complicated and render them in a form that non-experts can follow and make sense of.

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.

There was this very deliberate move to just overlay an American reality in Iraq. I've never actually seen the map, but apparently Americans thought the names of places were just too complicated so they got decent maps of Baghdad and just renamed everything with familiar names. This neighborhood would be Hollywood, that neighborhood would be Manhattan, and that one's Madison, you're going to drive down Oak and take a left on Main Street.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

The trouble with Adric was that from the beginning he was so damn complicated.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.

This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.

This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves.

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.

We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?

We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

We're all human and life is complicated.

We have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity to Italy.

We're getting caught up with labels: "Nudity: bad." It's not about "nudity: bad." It's about gratuitous oversexualization of children; it's complicated.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' .

What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.

Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.