Best 427 quotes in «complicated quotes» category

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.

I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that. Its complicated.

If you think about the energy that a rocket engine has to put out and all the fuel and you're sitting on top of like a bomb. And on the Space Shuttle, that big orange tank is filled with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, the white cell rocket boosters on the sides are filled with solid propellant. There's a lot of energy in all those chemicals there and you've got to control it in a way so it doesn't explode. So, there's a lot of plumbing, a lot of valving, a lot of control systems, and it's a very complicated thing. So, how do you bring the price of that down?

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.

I have a point of view on the issues, but it's a complex point of view that really can't be summed up in a sentence or two. I'm not being intentionally vague or mushy, it's just that - in my mind - the real answer is complicated.

I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.

I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes. I like to have this impression that we are all working together, where you can see all the technicians and everybody is really doing the same thing at the same time. With close-ups, of course you have the crew there, but most of them are just around and it doesn't involve that many people.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions.

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

I love doing movies, but right now, television is the way Hollywood was in the late '60s and early '70s. The dream era I would have loved to have been part of in Hollywood then is happening right now, but it's happening on television, with these big complicated story arcs and real character-driven shows and sheer ambiguity left and right.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.

I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.